Word: conventional
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...From 1871 to 1918, Les Soeurs de Ribeauville, a society of Catholic Sisters, remained behind the cloistered walls of their convent in Alsace. They were French and French they remained throughout the German occupation. They also saw to it that the girls they taught were inculcated with French culture. It was due to their 47 years of ceaseless devotion to their country that a group of little girls caused France to weep by singing the Marseillaise as the first French soldiers into Strasbourg...
Thus all hung for a moment upon Toppie. When she retired to a convent to end her days in ghostly communion with her dead disloyal Owen, Giles came to himself, crossed the Channel, was changed from Old Dog Tray into the Fairy Prince...
...Benedictine convent in Lambach, small Austrian town, a party of research students from the Musical-Historical Institute of Vienna, who had come to study the musical archives of the convent, unearthed a composition in manuscript, entitled Symphonic in C-dur, nr. 221, Von Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. It proved to be a tuneful, sunny piece, composed by the Master in Vienna, according to experts...
...tryout. The new ball was given a thorough try-out last week at the Morris County Golf Club, near Convent, N. J. Jess W. Sweetser, National Amateur Champion in 1923, knocked out a 71 with the large, light ball-a new course record...
...Satan, The Murder of Delicia, Problem of a Wicked Soul, God's Good Man, The Devil's Motor, The Secret Power, etc., etc. She was of mixed Italian and Scotch Highland blood, was adopted in infancy by Charles Mackay, famed song writer, who afterwards sent her to a French convent to be educated. Queen Victoria admired her work; Tennyson wrote her a letter of encouragement...