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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ANGEL PAVEMENT--Priestley (Harpers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD BOOKS OF THE MONTH | 10/30/1930 | See Source »

...double doors. St. John is the greeter. For "ushers" he has on one side of the porch Prophets Isaiah, Jeremiah, Hosea, Amos, Micah; on the other side followers of Christ SS. Simeon, Stephen, Paul, Barnabas, Timothy. Carved above them on the arch of the porch are two rows of angels framing a row of greatest scientists (Hippocrates to Albert Einstein, only living person yet figured in the whole church), a row of philosophers (Pythagoras to Ralph Waldo Emerson, only American figured), a row of religious leaders (Moses to David Livingstone. African missionary, explorer). High on the porch's tympanum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Riverside Church | 10/6/1930 | See Source »

...ANGEL PAVEMENT?J. B. Priestley? Harper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Business in the Bystreets-- | 9/8/1930 | See Source »

...Angel Pavement is a dock-tailed street shuffled in somewhere in E. C. 1 or E. C. 2, and one of the forgotten firms upon it is Twigg & Dersingham, Veneers and Inlays. Upon this languishing business bursts James Golspie, breezy and bumptious, fresh from the Baltic with the sole agency for foreign inlays and veneers procurable at a fabulous economy. In a day affairs are metamorphosed. Impressionable young Dersingham (Twigg is dead) makes a vague sort of manager out of Golspie, who scorns a partnership. Prosperity descends upon the stuffy office. Everyone is cheered, and if Smeeth, withered cashier, Lilian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Business in the Bystreets-- | 9/8/1930 | See Source »

Usually she chooses more celestial raiment: flowing white robes with trailing sleeves, suggestive of angel's wings. Thus decked out, with outspread arms, rolling eyes and a wide, sweet smile she may again have occasion to shout: "They thought that with me out of the way Angelus Temple would collapse, and it didn't, and it's going bigger than ever before. The Four-Square Gospel carries en! Hallelujah...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Sister's Sorrows | 9/1/1930 | See Source »

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