Word: esther
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Catherine Esther Beecher (1800-78) was the first member of the family to revolt completely against Calvinism. When her fiancé was drowned in a shipwreck, she declined to believe a preacher who told her "God has answered all his benevolent purposes by his death, and all is well.'' Catherine refuted Jonathan Edwards on free will, denied the doctrine of original sin, and set about improving the educational opportunities of U. S. females. She founded five schools, was one of the first progressive educators, wrote a best-selling treatise on housekeeping...
...came to pass in the days of Ahasuerus, who reigned 24 centuries ago 'from India to Ethiopia, that he put away his proud wife Vashti and espoused a modest, pretty Jewess named Esther. Ignorant of his queen's race, Ahasuerus made a favorite of her cousin Mordecai, who had saved the king's life. This was annoying to Haman the Prime Minister, a haughty anti-Semite. Haman had a gallows built 50 cubits high on which to hang Mordecai. He also got Ahasuerus to agree to exterminate "a certain people," casting lots (Purim) to decide when...
...Mishloach Monos (gifts to friends and to the poor) introduced a messenger called the Shalach Monos Tregger who carries the gifts from house to house. Today many a Jewish family celebrates Purim by giving a jolly party, eating Haman Taschen (poppyseed cakes) and reading the Megillath (scroll) of Esther. Children like it because whenever the name of Haman is mentioned they may drown it out by shouting, stamping their feet, whistling and whirling a noisy rattle...
...game hunter, last spinster of Chicago's famed Wartime ''Big Four" socialite beauty quartet;* and Curtis B. Munson, 41, War veteran, mining engineer; in Chicago. Married. Aidan Roark, Irish-born po loist, back on last summer's victorious Western team (TIME, Aug. 21); and Esther Foss Moore, daughter of Massachusetts' onetime Governor Eugene Noble Foss; in Carmel Valley, Calif. Seeking Divorce. Hubert Prior ("Rudy'') Vallée, 32, crooner, bandleader; from Fay Webb Vallée, actress, daughter of Santa Monica, Calif.'s Police Chief Clarence E. Webb. Fay Webb first sought...
...manservant Josef (Paul Lukas) who, when he hears his master playing "I Kiss Your Hand, Madame" to a lady, knows it is time to cut off the lights, bring in the candelabra and apologize for a blown-out fuse. During such a scene with a handsome singer (Esther Ralston) an angry husband bangs his way in upon Prince Alfred's philanderings. When the singer escapes, the Prince decides to retreat temporarily to his villa in Monte Carlo. He sends Josef ahead with his crested luggage. On the train Josef meets a lady's maid named Marie (Elissa Landi...