Word: antediluvianism
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...with is soft one. He has been president of the Fundamentalists for three years. His church is the Swedish Evangelical Mission Covenant of America, but he says: might be a Mason or anything else, would make no difference." The brothers & sisters listen quietly as he tells them hat the "antediluvian conditions" of Noah's time are repeated today. Jesus Christ is coming. But "men today are deifying man and humanizing God. Modernism is the religion of Cain." among the members of the Fundamentals Association are Mrs. Finley Johnson (Helen Gould) Shepard, Dr. Howard Atwood Kelly of Johns Hopkins (TIME...
Forty of the 50 Britons who perished on the R-101 (TIME, Oct. 13, et seq.) were members of the Royal Antediluvian Order of Buffaloes...
Critics of minstrelsy thought that the show's failure was not the result of any inadequacy of the "First Part," but by the mediocre character of the "Olio" (vaudeville). Producer Kilpatrick's Olio contained a series of antediluvian skits which included a ventriloquist, a female impersonator and some more singing, performed before a splendid example of early American opera-house curtain which bore advertisements for a patent electric belt, a dry goods store, and Mike's saloon. By far the best act in the Olio was not in the oldtime minstrel tradition, but bore the stamp...
...Ontario, last week forbade the further use of roller towels in all business and public lavatories; of powder puffs and sponges in all barbershops; of wooden bedsteads in public lodging houses of the Province. Reasons, well known to U. S. dwellers among whom such hygienic measures now seem almost antediluvian: germs teem on public towels, puffs and sponges; bedbugs nest in the joints of wooden bedsteads, in the crevices of their peeling veneer, in their "antique" wormholes...
With William Beebe flashing romantic reports of the Sargasso Sea and Galapagos, and Roy Chapman Andrews cabling accounts of antediluvian exhumations in Mongolia, the American Museum of Natural History (New York City) was never more widely advertised than last year. There was the Scopes trial in Tennessee, which sent thousands of news-following New Yorkers and out-of-town visitors to stand at gaze before the evolutionary figures in the famed hall of the Age of Man. The Museum had 142,047 more visitors than in any previous year, 1,775,890 in all. Its subscribing membership increased...