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While thousands of earnest young Catholic, Jewish and Protestant theological students were at their books last week, looking forward to a quietly devotional commencement time next spring, in Los Angeles 200 ministers-to-be were graduated with Christendom's dizziest rites from a seminary called the Lighthouse of International Foursquare Evangelism, or simply LIFE. Before admiring parents and friends a drop curtain whizzed up revealing the graduating class clad in shiny armor, brandishing swords and spears, manning a huge, realistic fortress. Below its battlements capered Satan, in multi-colored garments, and a horde of red devils bent on storming...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Sisters v. Satan | 1/18/1937 | See Source »

...American girl. Revolutionizing the New York stage he began by copying foreign revues and built successively his follies, his shows on the roof garden of the New Amsterdam and produced the top in musical comedies like "Show Boat," and the "Three Musketeers." Ziegfeld cracked the whip over Broadways thirty dizziest years, and his death after the crash ended a great period in entertainment...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crimson Moviegoer | 11/30/1936 | See Source »

...These girls are certainly the dizziest looking sirens one could imagine. In rags and tatters, holes in their coarse cotton stockings, torn, heeless shoes, their dresses ripped and burst, dirty-they can't get soap to wash their faces and hands-and no cosmetics to make up. About as much sex appeal as a busted down tractor, but somehow they grab off the sailor lads...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Caterpillars, Sirens, Valuta | 7/6/1931 | See Source »

...spectacle. Lew Raymond, first named Lewis, a gentleman experienced in making matches before the Pioneer Athletic Club of Manhattan, a face as well known on Mulberry Street as J. P. Morgan's is on Wall Street, assumed management of the event for three friends, "each capable of the dizziest finance." So Mr. Raymond, who is credited with a melodious Neapolitan accent, is arranging the details, while 2,000 miles away Shelby, Mont., basks silently in Winter snowfall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Wills-Firpo? | 2/25/1924 | See Source »

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