Word: box
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...world there was no happier man last week than Manhattan Banker William Woodward. Sitting in his box at ancient Churchill Downs, the 63-year-old millionaire watched his big bay colt, Johnstown, parade from the paddock with seven other top-notch U. S. three-year-olds-all that were ready to start of the 115 nominated last February-for the 65th running of the Kentucky Derby...
...undersigned, and 28,757 others, do petition the Bishops of the Church of England, that 24 of their number do send for and open Joanna Southcott's Box of Sealed Manuscripts, as we are of the opinion that anything purporting to be a Divine Revelation laid up for the world at this critical period should be examined by the Heads of the Church...
...feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars," she voiced and wrote reams of prophecies, some of them in doggerel. At 64 Joanna Southcott announced she was pregnant, by the "Lamb," of a Messiah. Ten days after her child was due, she died, leaving her followers a box of writings which, she declared, should be opened in time of national crisis, in the presence of four-and-twenty bishops...
...group today is the Panacea Society, founded some 20 years ago, which claims to cure "Cancer . . . Consumption . . . Mental Anxiety . . . Faults of Disposition ... the Tribulations and Perplexity that will precede the Coming of the Lord," by means of "Water and the Spirit." The Panacea Society claims that the 156-lb. box in its possession is the only true Joanna Southcott box...
...presence of one good-humored bishop, a small box, alleged to be Joanna Southcott's, was opened, found to contain miscellaneous objects. This box, according to the Panacea Society, was spurious. The society is confident that eventually 24 bishops will gather around the real box, and miracles will then pop. But to the society's recent petition the Church of England's bishops made no reply...