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Word: essentina (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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There were several reasons for their truly Universal sense of debt to the Prophet. Before he admitted them to the church, they had simply been plain Chicago schoolteachers, the spinster sisters Evelyn and Esther Jackson. But the Prophet grandly gave them titles, and they emerged the Princesses Bluntella and Essentina. On top of that, in 1949, he "cured" their 70-year-old mother's goiter by sending her to Gary, Ind. four times to get a drink of water in the bus station...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Preview for the Prophet | 3/2/1953 | See Source »

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