Word: magdalene
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Perugino's Crucifixion with St. John, the Magdalen and St. Jerome, a magnificent triptych, hung peacefully over the altar of the Dominican Church in many-towered San Gimignano for 400 years, until Napoleon swept through Italy. Unlike most of Napoleon's booty, it was not deeded permanently to the Louvre, slipped through a number of private hands to land finally in Moscow. One of the greatest of the Hermitage treasures, it cost Mr. Mellon the least...
...entire trip is consumed in efforts to get her signature on a contract. The appearance in his car of two guttural-voiced "beards" whirls Jaffe into an inspiration. He will produce the Passion Play of which they are members, adding dervishes, camels, elephants, an ibis and Lily Garland as Magdalen. Jaffe finds a willing backer in a religious fanatic (Etienne Girardot) who has delusions of wealth and sneaks through the train pasting up pious stickers. Quickly the Passion Play collapses, but Jaffe has another trick ready to get his actress back...
...endowed with a touch of the spurious and theatrical. He postures, tears his hair, wriggles, shouts, jumps, and with a gesture or a lift of the voice delineates such spectacles as a herd of camels, Rev. Mr. Davidson in Rain, Judas strangling himself (with a strand of Magdalen's hair), a door bell going Ting-a-ling-a-ling, an old family servitor, a Southern belle you-alling in crinolines...
...layman thumbs through this Supplement he will see the kind of terms the last generation has added to the language in biochemistry, wireless telegraphy and telephony, mechanical and air transport, psychoanalysis, the cinema. In London last month urbane George Stuart Gordon, president of Oxford's Magdalen College, half-humorously commented: "It [the Supplement'] gives the impression of a talented, nervous, highly-strung generation, equally harassed by its pleasures and its pains. ... I find too many words expressing contempt for age -'dodderer,' 'back number.' and so on. There are too many words devoted...
Still living in Memphis last week, Sister Mary Magdalen heard with joy that her recovery had helped bring her prayer nearer to realization. In Vatican City a decree was read to Pope Pius XI approving the authenticity of this and another miracle performed through Venerable Mary Pelletier. As result she will probably be beatified, titled "Blessed," during the coming Holy Year. Then, if more miracles are attested, she may be canonized...