Word: christe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Dr. Cyrus Adler, 76, president of Philadelphia's Dropsie College and of The Jewish Theological Seminary of America; in Philadelphia. To him, to Pope Pius XII and to the Rev. Dr. George Arthur Buttrick, president of the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America, went President Roosevelt's Christmas appeal to join in peace efforts...
...next one: next October). Chairman of the female commission is the Auxiliary's Executive Board Chairman Mrs. Robert G. Happ of South Bend, Ind. Some other members: Mrs. Mary Kingsbury Simkhovitch of Manhattan's Greenwich House (settlement); Mrs. Charles Leslie Glenn, wife of the popular rector of Christ Church, Cambridge, Mass.; Mrs. Norman B. Livermore, San Francisco socialite and clubwoman...
Where were Hsi and Ho? Where were the court astronomers? On this day in ancient China, some two millenniums before Christ, a monster was seen devouring the sun. While people rushed about madly and beat drums to scare off the celestial demon, Court Astronomers Hsi and Ho were found drunk. To punish them for being "sunk in wine and excess" instead of tending to business on a dire occasion, they had their heads...
Dealer David Silberman showed Cinemactor Mitchell the Christ along with some modern paintings (Mitchell hitherto had bought only moderns). His eye hit the Rembrandt and stayed there. "I saw something in that Christ's face I hadn't seen before," said he. "It wasn't an emaciated, lifeless symbol of a man. It was a human, bewildered Christ. This Christ was real flesh and blood and soul." For that flesh and blood and soul Tom Mitchell plunked down about...
...show how fit he felt after a physical checkup, Mormon Heber Jeddy Grant, 83-year-old president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, kicked up his knees right snappily as he left St. Vincent's Hospital, Los Angeles, enthusiastically supported by his son-in-law Wallace F. Bennett and a nurse...