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...visitors who toured the White House that day with Hilda Marie Marks brushed closer to history than they realized. As far as could be determined, no one else had come to set the place afire since the British put the torch...
...later was called to Manhattan. There he performed a bewildering array of duties as pastor and prior of St. Catherine of Siena Church, national director of the Holy Name Society, editor of the Holy Name Journal, national director of the Third Order of St. Dominic, founder-editor of the Torch. He not only could get along on five hours of sleep, but he also developed a flair for handling his delinquent parishioners. On Saturday nights he would make the rounds of the neighborhood bars, eye a backslider and say: "Shouldn't you go to confession tonight so that...
...wolfish roars as the Russian nobility, ever lovers of traditional customs, pursue nude serfs round and round the banquet hall. But Caroline is resolved at least to keep her head. As Prince Michael bears down upon her, his "greedy and sarcastic gaze" inflamed with "voluptuous contempt," Caroline puts a torch to the hangings. Gusts of fire sweep the room. Amid shouts, pistol shots and clouds of alcoholic smoke, Caroline legs it from the lodge, with Michael in hot pursuit, "howling like a wolf." Too late! Caroline has won again...
...Carry the Torch...
...Economics, and Osmanski's planning, that others began to see its potentialities. After Leach returned from his vacation, he saw clearly that if the program was going to continue, it would need both financial support and a full-time administrative staff. He also needed personnel who could "carry the torch to other schools and light the fire of defense study...