THE WAKE By MARY ELIZABETH MAGENNIS WHATEVER the ills and stresses of our time, I am thankful that I have lived before the passing of the wake. What with the present-day custom of living in...
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DISTRACTIONS OF A LITURGIST By MARY ELIZABETH MAGENNIS AWHILE ago in an article I publicly confessed to certain distractions in church and was quite properly told by one correspondent that I...
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November 22, I935 Commonweal 99 The wheat withers under a hot wind, the straw turns brittle, the grain sickly. The corn, beginning to shoot, wilts. It twists, you might say it writhes in pain....
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26o THE COMMONWEAL July 8, 193r presidio, as the advance guard of empire, because such are often so today, but the military discipline, order and elan which is so characteristic of Spanish genius,...
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October 22, 1930 THE COMMONWEAL 637 Places and Persons DISTRACTIONS OF A CHURCHGOER By MARY ELIZABETH MAGENNIS THERE is something perverse in man which becomes restless in the...
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