Word: christe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Some Excitement." Along the Via Dolorosa all was dead. An Arab youngster bounced a ball against the plaque denoting the Third Station. At the Sixth Station, where Veronica wiped Christ's face a Hebronite Arab brushed past silently, carrying an enormous tray of bread loaves. Christendom's greatest sanctuary, the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, was indeed as though it were a place of the dead...
...church itself, there were only Coptic and Orthodox priests swinging censers over Christ's tomb, while in its dim reaches the Franciscans could be heard singing...
...would appear, when TIME [Nov. 24] refers to the Boyman's Museum, Rotterdam, and other purchasers of Van Meegeren's pictures, as suckers, owing to their acquisitions having proved the work of a contemporary artist, instead of genuine Vermeers. Has their merit wilted thereby? Is the Christ at Emmaus any less beautiful, because the authorship is changed...
Some of the Negro congregation began to murmur the words of the hymn the choir was singing, "How sweet it is to know Him, Jesus Christ divine." Slowly choir and congregation began to sway and clap and stomp to the rhythm. People in the audience jiggled and jounced up & down shouting "Oh Lord, tell a story!" A mother pushed her child from her lap, crying "Oh Jesus, I'll fly away...
...years later, in 1889, 400,000 copies had been sold. In 1913, Sears Roebuck ordered a million copies. Just before the play was produced, Charles Frohman said to Producers Klaw & Erlanger: "Boys, I'm afraid you're up against it-the American public will never stand for Christ and a horse race in the same show." The play ran for 21 years...