Word: amens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...appreciative reading of your splendid newsmagazine, I have until now, resisted the oft-occuring temptation to write you in commendation of your policy in the set-up of your periodical, but since reading Mr. John Palmer Gavit's letter in TIME. Oct. 3, I want to say "Amen" to all that he said, and to add that his letter is by far the best one on the subject that I have seen, and I am confident of having read all of them to date...
...Digger H. H. Von der Osten of the University of Chicago returned last autumn from the Hittite cities of Asia Minor with a manuscript which seemed to show that Queen Ankh-nes-Amen, after King Tut's death, wrote and asked a Hittite king if he had a marriageable son. tDr. Breasted is said to have read and translated every old Egyptian inscription ever discovered...
...then the maiden paused, as if to catch a distant strain. Like an alabaster monument of Joan of Arc she seemed to stand the guardian vestal of the light that dwells in the Hallelujah-and-Amen type of evangelism. And as she spoke her thin childish voice quavered...
Pater noster, qui es in caelis: sanctificetur nomen tuum. Adveniat regnum tuum. Fiat voluntas tua, sicut in caelo, et in terra. Panem nostrum supersubstantialem da nobis hodie. Et dimitte nobis debita nostra, sicut et nos dimittimus debitoribus nostris. Et ne nos inducas in tentationem. Sed libera nos a malo. Amen...
...Jeweled Tree. Before Pogany's sets, an Egyptian fantasy unrolled itself out of Tut-Ankh-Amen vestments. Once upon a time Prince Rames sallied forth to possess himself of the fruit of the tree. And did. Authentic folklore it is, with talking alligators -scholarly, picturesque, but apparently not the thing to engross an audience...