Word: angelus
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...provide a church home for those who are disgusted with Voliva's tactics." Then hiring a theatre she held lusty revival meetings, playing hymns on her silver trumpet. As an additional lure she stated these meetings were exact duplicates of those Sister McPherson was holding in the Angelus Temple at Los Angeles. At the end of each session Sister Locy called upon the faithful to come forward, rejoiced as Zion-deserters increased...
...while critics flayed his canvases. Then slowly it was realized that Liebermann was doing for German art what Millet had done for French. Today Old Max may be labeled and pigeonholed as the "German Millet," an essentially bygone master, whom screeching modernist-art has left behind. Millet painted The Angelus, and The Gleaners. Old Max Liebermann has done Women Plucking Geese, An Asylum for Old Men, The Flax Spinners-and recently The Polo Team...
...widow Angeline and Son Louis embarked for America, settled in Manhattan. When a year had passed, they found they had saved a capital of $100. Proudly, they formalized their little business, became Louis Philippe, Inc. Their first trademarked line they named the "Angelus," the tribute of a dutiful son to the widow Angeline. By 1914, the American public was beginning to be cosmetic-conscious. Cosmetic makers, among them the Philippes, valued their products in that year...
...TIME, June 7, 1926 ), the daughter last week followed her mother. She held her audience's attention, put them in a mood of sanctity, but she took no money from them. Mrs. McPherson did that, after her own sermon. Later, the two, with a dramatic troupe from their Angelus Temple in Los Angeles, set out to work towards Manhattan where they would arrive for the fall and winter evangelistic season...
...pictures that have adorned, in reproduction, millions of book-plates, art calendars, folios, and frontispieces. There is Whistler's restrained and noble picture of his mother, the old lady folded in silence like the fall of her quiet dress, hearing voices fade, footsteps pass; Millet's "Angelus," the bent peasants in their luminous field; the perfumed floridity of Nicholas Poussin's "Orpheus and Eurydice," Jacques Louis David's capable "Portrait of Pius VII"; "Renaul and Armide" one of the classic posturings of François Boucher, the courtier who painted ceilings with the grace of miniatures...