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...called down daily upon the Senate and the House by Chaplains Ze Barney Thome Phillips (right in cut below) and James Shera Montgomery, respectively. House Chaplain Montgomery (Methodist) was less flowery than Senate Chaplain Phillips (Episcopalian). On opening day last week the latter began, "God of our fathers, Fountain of light and love, before whose boundless gaze the seasons roll in majesty and might, and man, Thy miniature divine, was made to walk the earth in joy; incline, at this momentous hour of the newborn year, our thoughts to prayer, our lips to praise...
...years of patriotic Shinto prayer for a boy at last-a new Son of Heaven. Auspiciously the Empress's labor grew most severe last week just as Japan's sun was about to rise and burst refulgent on the Imperial Maternity Pavilion, freshly built in the Fountain Garden of Tokyo's moat-encircled Chiyoda Palace. Minute by minute they approached-the Sun Goddess and the Imperial Child-in what to Japanese courtiers standing motionless in full regalia with faces reverently blank seemed a divine unison. In an adjoining room of the Pavilion stoically waited His Imperial Majesty...
...eyebrows, as though engaged in a perpetual closeup. but otherwise her acting and good looks have been improved. There is a sharp flicker of vitality at the end of Jezebel's second act: against one of Don ald Oenslager's superbly romantic sets. dressed in an inverted fountain of white lace, her voice flat with excitement and despair, she celebrates the fact that a duel has resulted from her bad behaviour by singing a gay song with her slaves. The fact that she was born in Bainbridge, Ga., 29 years ago and can still remember her Southern accent...
...Chicago, Francisco Zepeda, Eskimo, was arrested when, during a cold snap, he stole two fountain pens, tried to trade them for a pair of earmuffs...
...Jerusalem's plateau. The wilful Queen had a fancy to prove the great King Solomon "with hard questions." Legend tells how Solomon fed skeptical Sheba heavily salted dishes. When she grew thirsty in the night, she was obliged to pass through Solomon's chamber to reach the fountain. Said she afterward. "The half was not told me: thy wisdom and prosperity exccedeth the fame which I heard" (I Kings 10: 7). From that thirst, according to Abyssinian legend, sprang the line of the present Emperor Haile Selassie ("Power of Trinity") of Abyssinia. From it too sprang his wife...