Word: cult
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...notch socialites, Lord & Lady Plunket, arriving as guests in one of his newspapers' airplanes, had crashed and burned to death. Lady Plunket, 38, was the only child of Actress Fannie Ward who, at 66, still weighs 100 pounds, still wears size twelve clothes, still advocates her "cult of youth." and is known in England as a U. S.-born "perennial flapper...
Showing that Britain has a more tolerant attitude toward ESP than elsewhere Murphy thinks that the rapid growth of spiritualism as a cult in America impaired rather than assisted the spread of systematic scientific inquiry...
...frequent sales talks and demonstrations of Daddy Grace Toothpaste, Daddy Grace Cold Cream, Daddy Grace Hair Straightener. Pastors also hawk the Grace Magazine, a "miraculous publication" over which prayers are said as it goes through the presses. Believing that this journal has the power to heal, members of the cult wear copies of it strung around their necks or under their clothing...
Pictures of the Mighty I AM Presence, showing two figures, the upper one of which emits rays of light, loom large in the cult's meditative meetings. Such pictures, garishly colored, may cost the faithful as much as $15. Originally...
...Respect for Christianity, and curbing of the Nazi neopagan cult headed by Dr. Alfred Rosenberg, "Cultural Leader of the Nazi Party...