Word: adamant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bitingual or French liturgic drama. The wise and the foolish virgins. The Jeu d'Adam...
...Since Adam Gimbel, father of the present partners, founded the first Gimbel store in Vincennes, Ind., in 1842, the family has prospered. Two sons branched out in Milwaukee; the growing enterprise was extended to Philadelphia, then to New York. In April, 1923, they acquired the entire capital stock of Saks & Co., which gave them title to the Saks Fifth Avenue and Herald Square stores. A month ago they bought the 18-story Cuyler Building on 32nd St., Manhattan, opposite their Herald Square business seat. With Kaufmann & Baer, they now own a chain of six huge department stores, which means increasing...
Because Bishop Kedrovsky derived his authority from the Soviet Government, Bishop William T. Manning called loudly upon Christian Churches to support Platon, the anti-Bolshevik. A new claimant arose in one Adam Phillipovsky, a big, bearded man with a voice that could make the windows of a church or a police-court shiver. He entered suit to obtain the Cathedral and all that went with it. Convinced that by this piece of deference to the curious laws of a quaint country, all that he wanted had automatically accrued to him, he enlisted a Bomb Squad from the Manhattan Police Department...
...slowly through wadded files of legal red tape. Last week it trickled into the attention of the New York Appellate Court, which declared that there was no doubt of his authorization by the Holy Russian Synod. Accordingly, the court reinstated him and declared that the claims of bellowing Bishop Adam, Plaintiff Platon, and all other Russian-American archbishops, were null, void. Said Kedrovsky's lawyer...
...Literally "Successor", (usually) of Mohammed. In the Koran the term is applied to Adam, as "viceregent...