Word: astrologists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...said are obliged to pay people to attend worship. He delved in the mysteries of non-Christian worship, had Parsees, Chinese, Amerindians conduct their rituals in his church. He invited people like Dancers Isadora Duncan and Ruth St. Denis, Poet Amy Lowell, Actresses Helen Menken and Eva Le Gallienne, Astrologist Evangeline Adams, to speak at afternoon or evening services. But when, on St. Nicholas Eve in 1923, Dr. Guthrie had six bare-legged but amply-clad Barnard College girls perform eurythmic dances in St. Marks, austere Bishop Manning blew up. He cut off St. Marks from his episcopal visiting list...
...College, and Dr. Mary E. Wooley, president of Mount Holyoke College, are the leading nominees of the organization which believes that man's domination of the affairs of the nation has been a complete failure. The first goal of the new organization is to elect a vice-president (an astrologist has predicted a woman vice-president...
...play is a moony obeisance to that fount of so much good & bad dramatic material, the brothel. Across its one majestic set parade half a dozen wenches, chipper lads and befuddled dignitaries in dinner jackets, a grafting commissioner, sinister "backers." a youth in love with an inmate, a twittering astrologist. a blundering social worker, a moody "Professor" (Eduardo Ciannelli), a baleful headmistress (Olga Baclanova ) who keeps everything under control until she falls in love with the Professor. It takes almost the whole third act for her to tell him her feelings, for him to spurn her politely...
...Manhattan's St. Mark's-in-the-Bouwerie, Pastor William Norman Guthrie was celebrating the "Christian Office of the Children of the Zodiac," a memorial service for the late Astrologist Evangeline Adams. As the congregation sang a hymn, Dr. Guthrie lit a Eucharistic candle. His surplice sleeve brushed against a row of lighted candles, flared up. The congregation stopped singing, resumed again as Dr. Guthrie, with little help, slapped out the blaze with his hand...