Word: nunning
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...action is combined spectacle, pantomime, opera. The story is based on a legend of the ages, told twice before?by John Davidson. in The Ballad of a Nun and by Maeterlinck in Soeur Beatrice. The Nun, feeling the call of the flesh, deserts her cloistered life, goes through a strange variety of worldly revels, and returns, tarnished and beaten by the world, to find that the statue of the Virgin has come to life and performed her duties in her absence...
...Convent of the Franciscan Sisters at Cairo, in Egypt, houses a nameless nun who is no ordinary exponent of the paint brush...
...nun, who wishes to remain anonymous, received two orders from the Pope for portraits, which when completed will be represented to King George and Queen Mary...
...nameless nun whose painting caused a stir in the Vatican...
...opportunity on Tuesday to hear Jeritza in Thais. It is not recorded that the Liberty Bell began to ring, or that the Continental Congress reconvened to render a vote of thanks to the beauty. But Jeritza enacted the role of the wild lady of Alexandria who turned nun-as wild ladies sometimes do today-and there was applause enough...