Word: cardinalate
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Furthermore, the fellow had angered the local Carmelites by taking over from them the hearing of confession in the town, and the Capuchins by discrediting their cloister's miracle-working image. There was, however, some consolation, for the priestly popinjay had made an enemy of Cardinal Richelieu by walking...
Cardinal Sin. With Sands gone, the life goes out of Hemlock and After. Author Wilson adds an epilogue in which a strangely recovered Mrs. Sands splices up the novel's loose ends and packs Ma Curry and her crew off to jail.
Author Wilson seems to see his novel as a modern morality play. In its terms, vulgarity is evil, good taste is grace, "to let life bore you" is the cardinal sin, and no one is ever saved from anything. His crisp prose style and his deft aim with the acid...
Far & away the most ingenious of all British puzzle "setters" is a Sussex schoolmaster named Derrick Somerset Macnutt, whose crosswords appear each fortnight in London's Sunday Observer under the byline Ximenes (a Cardinal Inquisitor of Spain). Ximenes' puzzles, for which he is paid 10 to 15 guineas...
After hearing an opening speech by Cardinal Spellman and attending a grand ball in Hollywood, the Knights of 1952 passed some resolutions in the spirit of their founder. Among them: