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Word: christs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...time in the U. S. by the Provincetown Playhouse. As indicated by the title the action follows the wild imaginings of one whose mind is unlocked in sleep. Wealth and pleasure, disease and religion are all surveyed in a swift succession of dismal pictures ending in something like death. Christ walking upon the waters is one of the incidents. Though not badly acted by Mary Fowler and Stanley Howlett, the production is pretty generally heavy going...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: The Best Plays: Feb. 1, 1926 | 2/1/1926 | See Source »

...story" but he can scarcely be said to "titillate sewing circles." It might interest you to know that men like Bernard Shaw, James Montgomery Flagg and George Lansbury be said to have appointed persons to be apostles, any more than John the Baptist appointed Jesus to be the Christ. You cannot appoint a sunrise nor stop it, though you can throw dust in people's eyes so they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jan. 25, 1926 | 1/25/1926 | See Source »

...power of the " strong Son of God, immortal love" ? If the latter, why not a person born of the gentle, intelligent, clean, ascetic Brahmin stock? For if He came as a Protestant, would Catholics accept? If as a Catholic, would Christian Scientists? When last time He came, the Christ worked through a disciple but the Imperial Roman business men ignored Him and the orthodox Jewish theologians murdered Him. I suggest that TIME wait a little time before it rouse the cheap jibes of the spiritually starved world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jan. 25, 1926 | 1/25/1926 | See Source »

...Oberammergau the local Mayor, the Judas Iscariot of the Passion Players, commented upon the reception accorded two years ago to famed Anton Lang, interpreter of the role of Christ, by President Coolidge (TIME, March 24, 1924, PRESIDENCY...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Lang Vexed | 1/25/1926 | See Source »

...living bishop of that Church. At the end of the month he will leave with his family for his new duties as Protestant Episcopal Missionary Bishop of Mexico, with exhortations from his fellow bishops to represent not only his Church but his country, and to be an "ambassador from Christ...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Creighton Ordained | 1/25/1926 | See Source »

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