Word: goldings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Thinner than usual but dressed to the usual hilt (a ring on every finger, gold pins in the lapels of his blue-grey suit, a jeweled pin in his red-speckled tie), octogenarian Negro Cultist Father Divine made one of his rare appearances to supervise a vittles-laden Feast of the Lamb, celebrating the twelfth anniversary of his marriage to his blonde "Virgin Bride," Edna Rose Ritchings, 33. While red-jacketed "Rosebuds" sang "All the Angels Love You, You Are So Beautiful, Lord," fading Father Divine jangled a silver bell to start a typical meal at his Philadelphia headquarters...
Sallie belts them out in the magenta-walled midtown Manhattan convention hall known as the Latin Quarter. In a white gown with red lining, she steps before the gold-spangled curtain and gives a wild-riding reading of Witchcraft, her pelvis bumping out the rhythm, her copper-red hair whipping over her face. Her big-bodied voice can flare to an exuberant shout or sink away to a foggy, muted-trumpet whisper. Occasionally, as she sweeps her almond eyes over the ringside tables, she lets flutter a throaty, tongue-trilling sound that suggests nothing so much as the invitation...
...chanting of sutras, the sounding of gongs and the curling smoke of burning incense. Chief Abbot Oda Sesso was ordaining a head priest for the Zen Buddhist temple of Daitokuji Ryosen-An in Kyoto, Japan. The new Zen priest gravely accepted the kesa -the richly brocaded red-and-gold silk scarf that is the mark of the priesthood -and assumed the Buddhist name of Jyokei. But in Chicago, where she was born 65 years ago, her name was Ruth Fuller. Last week she became the first American in history to be admitted to the Japanese Buddhist priesthood and installed...
...founder-president and board chairman of Zenith Radio Corp., globe-trotting adventurer who persuaded the Navy to use short wave radio by going to the Arctic in 1925 and working a ship 12,000 miles away in New Zealand waters, also flew his own glider, raced outboards, mined gold in Mexico, lived on a yacht on the Chicago River, managed to build his company's sales to over $160 million in 1957; of cancer; in Chicago...
...cobras. We have eight million 'holy men,' most of them naked and all of them mad. Everything of any value was taken long ago by the conquerors .. . They took the strength from the soil, the virtue from the women, and the will power from the men. The gold is gone, the jewels gone, nothing is left but hones and a bad smell...