Word: adams
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Twenty-four years after the battle of Bull Run?on July 21, 1885?at the call of Adam Marty, 34 veterans of Bull Run assembled at dinner in Stillwater, Minn. Foreseeing that in the coming years death would decimate their ranks, they founded the Last Man's Club. Each year they agreed to meet again on the anniversary of the battle. A bottle of wine was dedicated to the last man, who should open the precious bottle and drink a toast to his departed comrades...
...year ago but five of the original group assembled, including in their number Adam Marty. This year 34 places were set as usual, shining with bright silver and glassware. In the center of the table, amid the decorations, rested the consecrated bottle. Thirty chairs were draped with black, among them Adam Marty's. One survivor was too decrepit to make the journey from his Florida home. But three men dined where once the 34 had supped. Too soon will the bottle's cork be pulled...
...judges (one picked by Bishop Brown, one by the Presiding Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church, the third by agreement of the other two judges) shall report as to whether or not there is a schism between Anglo-American orthodox Christianism and modern scientism concerning: creation of the universe, Adam and Eve, birth of Jesus, His second coming to raise the dead and other theological questions. Bishop Brown's book denies nearly every cardinal doctrine of the Christian faith. Bishop Gailor declares that "it would be as easy to crush the heretical representations of Communism and Christianism...
George Grey Barnard, American sculptor, is completing a heroic group of Adam and Eve for a secluded spot in John D. Rockefeller's estate at Pocantico Hills, N. Y. The figure of Adam is 25 feet high, and the two are said to have been cut from the largest block of Carrara marble ever brought to America. The design represents Eve issuing from the rib of Adam. Mr. Barnard has been at work on the piece several years. The legend is current in art circles that at one time the elder Rockefeller was opposed to the nude in sculpture...
...late Adam Gimbel. His sons and his sons' sons have the biggest store business in the world...