Word: counts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...They have four capital cities for their cult-Ommen, Adyar in India, Sydney in New South Wales and Ojai, a small town of Ventura County, Cal., near Los Angeles. †They count approximately 1,250,000 communicants. Catholics count more than 16,000,000, Methodists almost 9,000,000, Baptists 8,400,000, Presbyterians 2,500,000, Lutherans 2,500,000, Disciples of Christ 1,800,000 (TIME, April...
Last week a Paris court declared null and void the marriage of Count Jacques Bouly de Lesdain, explorer-journalist, and Mabel Bailey of Chicago. According to French law, a Frenchman marrying abroad must have the ceremony performed either by a French diplomatic agent, or in the custom of the country of residence at the time. Neither of these conditions were fulfilled. A Belgian missionary is not a French diplomat. Mongolian custom says that a man must either capture his wife in a horse galloping ceremony, or buy her from her family (ten ewe lambs being the price of a maiden...
...Smith, lauded and feted a fortnight ago by effusively grateful Hungarians (TIME, July 5) made the retort courteous and gallant last week by returning to the Hungarian Government a cheque for $100,000 which was tendered him as his well-earned salary for two years of unremittent labor. Premier Count Stephen Bethlen of Hungary declared himself unable to find words in which to praise fitly such generosity from a man known to be far from rich. Straightway the cheque was deposited as "The Jeremiah Smith Hungarian Scholarship Fund." Every year two Hungarian students will travel memorially...
...Count Bruga-Ben Hecht ($2). Grimy but exuberant...
...Count Bruga's tragedy is experiencing crises of incontinence in public or crowded places. Now it is at an occult buffet supper-after stuffing his poet's paunch with other people's helpings, he addresses his advances to his hostess, an elderly madam. He lands in the street. . . . Again, his patron tenders him a banquet. He refuses to join in the consumption of bourgeois food and makes his repast on wine from the highboy. His ejection follows a violent attack of temperament during which bottles crash on servants' skulls and the refectory is strewn with pulverized...