Word: buddha
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...open what in a fortnight has become the gaudiest main reading room on the Pacific Coast and to dedicate the largest mural finished under PWAP. Should a reader's attention wander, he would be instantly confronted by brilliantly colored likenesses of such assorted characters as Boccaccio, Gautama Buddha, Mayor Carter of Santa Monica, Adam & Eve, Cinemactress Gloria Stuart, Bach, Michael Faraday, Senator John P. Jones, Leo Carrillo, Michelangelo, Confucius, and Viola Player Samuel Lifschey. All this was the effort of Stanton Macdonald Wright, co-founder 22 years ago of the Synchromist movement in art, to wind...
...leaderless conference was becoming unruly. Gandhi excused himself. Doris Duke Cromwell & husband started for Bombay to resume their honeymoon. A United Pressman quoted her as saying: "I felt, in meeting this world-famous advocate of peace and nonviolence, that I had talked to a Messiah, comparable to Confucius, Buddha, Christ or Mohammed. There seemed an amazing paradox in this Hindu Messiah's opposition to what he felt to be the oppression of Great Britain, one of the most powerful of the nations which practice the precepts of Jesus Christ...
...rough, sprawling Harbin, Manchuria swarmed with intrigue-Chinese v. Russians, Japanese v. Chinese, Russians v. Japanese, White Russians v. Red Russians, bandits v. everybody. Into this hotbed, as U. S. Consul, stepped George Charles Hanson, huge, round, genial and imperturbable as a sculptured Buddha. In Shanghai, Chefoo, Dairen, Newchwang, Tientsin, Swatow, Chungking, Foochow he had already made himself one of the Far East's best-known diplomats. It had been 13 years since he left his native Bridgeport, Conn, as a Cornell engineering graduate. In that time he had learned to stay sober while gulping vast quantities of vodka...
...Bouwerie but in those which are welcoming stately, white-haired Dancer Ruth St. Denis, 54, good Christian Scientist. Three years ago Miss St. Denis founded a Society for the Spiritual Arts whose 100 members meet weekly in her studio for readings from the world's great prophets -Buddha, Christ, Mohammed, Zoroaster, Krishna et al. Before an altar, serious-minded Miss St. Denis or members of the Society interpret the readings in motion. They believe they have lately had notable success with the Psalms. And last week Miss St. Denis had ready a dance-pageant which she and a "rhythmic...
...arrived on the Ile de France with a manager, a pianist, a violinist, three maids, 23 trunks, 50 pieces of hand luggage, a 12th Century Buddha and a $6,000-per-week contract. Awaiting her were a Sherry-Netherland penthouse, a show called Continental Varieties, a brand new night club on the 65th floor of the R. C. A. building, Rockefeller Center. Producers Arch Selwyn and Harold B. Franklin congratulated themselves when, a week before the Varieties opened, every $8.80 seat in the house had been sold. Rockefeller Center was proud of its Rainbow Room, with its high glass walls...