Word: angellic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Angel of the Lord bade Moses tell his people that when the Passover came they should sacrifice lambs and smear their doors with the blood, that the Angel of Death, passing by, might know where righteous men lived. Long after the death of Moses, Jews celebrated their Passover with the death of lambs; and in the ghettos of walled cities, there were bloody marks upon the doors. In the Middle Ages, when the Jews were hated most bitterly by Christians, the legend arose that the blood upon their doors was that of Christian children whom Jews deemed the most suitable...
...field offers each composer good opportunity to apply his peculiar virtuosity. Each will certainly receive rich fees. The movies can afford to pay. A single picture house, the Roxy Theatre, in Manhattan, rarely receives less than $110,000 a week from admissions. Its income for four weeks of Street Angel (with Movietone) was $479,000. That, however, was a record...
...then announced record sales, new high profits. Chain stores declared June sales of $123,239,775, an increase of 21.6% over June, 1927, while their six months' gains totaled 17.2%. Prohibitionists could I rejoice at the report of the company headed by Sebastian Spering Kresge, Anti-Saloon League angel, showing $62,790,164 sales, $6,527,111 earnings, as against $55,-900,987 and $5,756,039 for the first half of 1927. But vegetarians groaned at the outstanding exception among triumphant chain store operators. Newly dedicated to the slogan, "Go Vegetable-wise," the ' Childs Co. admitted...
Funds. In view of what was coming, the first announcement at next morning's meeting of the National Democratic Committee was not particularly significant. Jesse Holman Jones, retiring Director of Finance and "angel" of the Democracy the past four years, reported that the $84,000 Houston convention was all paid for and that a balance of some $200,000 remained for campaign expenses...
Died. Emory Titman, 38, heaviest theatrical angel in the world (587 pounds); of heart disease; in Atlantic City, N. J. (see page...