Word: adams
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...three other basilicas in Rome? St. John Lateran, Sts. Peter and Paul, St. Mary Major?specially deputed cardinals will "batter down" other holy portals. The symbolism of the rite is variously interpreted?by some as representing the return of Adam and Eve (i.e., humanity) to Paradise through the intercession of Christ; by others, as having sprung from the fact that the medieval church was sanctuary for fugitives...
Married. Lee Adam Gimbel, a Vice President of Gimbel Bros., Inc. (famed Philadelphia; Manhattan and Milwaukee department store), to Miss Ruth Prince, New Rochelle, N.Y.; at New Rochelle. Three of the six ushers were Gimbels-Ellis, Richard. Benedict; the best man was also a Gimbel-Louis Jr. Married. Rev. Tertius Van Dyke, 38, Pastor of the Park Avenue Presbyterian Church, Manhattan, to Miss Mary Elizabeth Cannon, of New Haven, church secretary; at New Haven. The ceremony was performed by the groom's father, Dr. Henry Van Dyke, famed author-diplomat, onetime U.S. Minister to the Netherlands and Luxemburg...
Among the pictures were: Tiger Dodging Rainbow-colored Buckshot, Starling Hermit Baying at the Moon, A Saint with an Ulcerated Tooth, Adam and Eve (Adam looked like a lemon), Husband Splitting His Wife's Head with Hatchet (this sympathetic piece priced at $300), A 110-Fear-Old Woman Playing Solitaire (price $250). The nude is eschewed as oldfashioned. Female figures appear exclusively in cotton underwear...
However, I was surprised that you failed to make mention of Genesis 5:4 wherein, as you doubtless know, Adam is credited with 800 years of reproductive life. In those years he begat Cain's wife. Thus your third solution to the problem is the only one biblically permissible...
...Bible says that, until Adam, "there was not a man to till the ground" and that Eve was "the mother of all living." Now the only recorded children of Adam and Eve are Cain and Abel. Cain slew Abel. Mr. Shipman offers the following possible theories to explain the per- petuation of the human race: 1) Cain's wife was made, like Adam, from the dust or, like Eve, from her husband's rib. But Mr. Shipman "would see something grotesque in the idea of a Cain brought up through baby hood, childhood and youth to meet...