Word: adams
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Members of this organization designate themselves as Bible Students. Their creed holds that Biblical prophecies govern all earthly events. By careful scrutiny of Holy Writ, the Bible Students have discerned that three periods of time, termed "cosmos," prevail in human affairs. Cosmos I began with Adam, ended with the Flood. Cosmos II began with the Flood, ended with the World War. Cosmos III, begun in 1914, will end in 2874, when "The Kingdom of God" will fill the whole world. An erroneous prophecy that the year 1928 would provide a cataclysm- ''Nations will battle; the dead will...
...Green Pastures, stage smash hit now playing in Manhattan (TIME, March 10), was based on Author Bradford's Ol' Man Adam and His Chillun, might equally well have been founded on Ol' King David and the Philistine Boys...
...pound class: George Manierre Jr. '33, Adam Palaza '31, Mario Pittoni...
...celestial fish-fry the Lord God, in the simple frock-coated image of a benignant Negro pastor, creates the world and leaves to inspect his handiwork, declaring, "I'll be back Saturday." Then are exhibited the careers of Adam and Eve, of Cain and of Noah, who is commanded to live aboard an Ark while a world given over to dicing, short skirts, and all manner of Evil is submerged beneath the floods. Years later the Lord God selects Moses to lead his people out of the land of Pharaoh. Pharaoh's palace is depicted as a glorified...
...Adam Fenwick-Symes has just finished his autobiography in Paris and is bringing it home, but the manuscript is confiscated by the authorities in Dover as obscene. So he becomes a society-gossip writer for a London newspaper: his column, getting more and more imaginative, becomes more and more successful until one day he goes too far. Then he lives on credit, and on the hopes of collecting ?35,000 which a drunken major wins for him on a horse race. He and the major occasionally meet but always lose each other before the money can change hands. Adam...