Word: abbey
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...various Latin documents two of which were "spurious, very spurious, absolutely spurious." Scholar that he was, his critical sense was temporarily submerged by an enthusiasm caught from the great humanists of his period. Some time later he abandoned both science and the humanities to play the monk at the Abbey of Saint-Maur-des-Fosses, a Paradise, he said, of healthfulness, amenity, serenity, delight and all honest pleasures of agriculture and rustic life. . . . But Rabelais could not remain in a Paradise, any more than Eve; like her he was too full of curiosity. Chastised for heresy and impiety, accused...
...recent London marriage of England's cherubic Lord High Chancellor, Sir Douglas McGarel Hogg, Baron Hailsham. For one thing this extremely select wedding was attended by only 60 guests, the press and the public being barred. For another it took place in King Henry VII's Chapel, in Westminster Abbey, the most gloriously Gothic and splendid shrine in England. Moreover the license was the first to be issued by the new Archbishop of Canterbury and Primate of All England, the Most Reverend Father in God, Cosmo Gordon Lang...
...Downs on the other, or Cummor Hurst, or Shotover Hill, are all within easy walking distance. Short cycle rides will open an even more extensive region to the wayfarer with three or four hours to spare. Ewelme and the Chilterns, Sinodun Camp and the Downs, Dorchester with its lovely Abbey-church, lie in one direction; in another is Minster Lovell, on the way to the Cotswolds and those charming hidden villages of the Stone Country; in another direction, past Old Marston, where Cromwell planned his campaign against Oxford, is as sweet a village as any in England. Wood Eaton, sleeping...
...Prayers were constantly offered in Westminster Abbey not only for the King but for his doctors, nurses. A silent prayer by a group of British marines was impressively led, in London, by James Joseph Tunney...
...England a man was blown off London Bridge to drown in the Thames; and the statue of King Richard the Lion Hearted in Old Palace Yard, between the House of Lords and Westminster Abbey, lost His Majesty's sword which the wind snapped off at the hilt. Landsmen's deaths in Europe totaled 25. The South American cyclone slew 41 Argentines, injured 150, swept away 200,000 acres of crops...