Word: jerusalem
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mary I ("Bloody Mary," 1516-1558) and her husband King Philip II of Spain bore jointly perhaps the most diversified title ever attached to English sovereigns: "Philip and Mary, by the Grace of God, King and Queen of England and France, Naples, Jerusalem and Ireland, Princes of Spain and Sicily, Archdukes of Austria, Dukes of Milan, Burgundy and Brabant...
...Immortal Thief originates in the New Testament account of the crucifixion. In Walter Hampden, innately a scholar and a gentleman, it is difficult to see a tigerish outlaw of harsh Jerusalem. Yet there he is, leaping to good, plunging into evil, denying the gods, always thinking of them, a strange duality of ruthless passion and grand sacrifice. He breaks a fellow thief's legs, cuts off the hand of another, supposedly traitorous. To atone for his cruelty, he sacrifices himself to save a girl, unloved, who adores him. Salvation comes at the end in a fiercely realistic crucifixion tableau...
...interested, Mr. Jewett asked to report to his theatre on Huntington Avenue, near Massachusetts Avenue, at 7 o'clock tonight. The pilgrims who reach the Jerusalem of the casting manager's approval, will be allowed to bask in the radiated glory of Miss Braggiott; no less than eight times a week: six times in the evening and on the afternoons of Thursday and Saturday...
...fellow Bedouin tribes of the Arabian Desert, settled themselves down to a pastoral, and, later, an agricultural life in Canaan. Pious Jews, bound even though they be by modern commerce, memorialize it for seven days, wherever possible, by living in thatched huts, as did their ancestors on pilgrimages to Jerusalem. Deprived of an outdoor areaway, ghetto-crowded Jews have been known to rip holes in their roofs, holes which they covered with corn stalks or twists of grass. On the last day of the feast, Simkhat Torah, the yearly reading of the" Law is completed. Then there is a riot...
...affairs in Washington and New York for which its qualifications are of questionable origin and its performance inadequate. If it proposes to make its powers felt by means of cathedrals it should supply the money to build them from its own members and not solicit gifts from other denominations." Jerusalem Kirk. In the Holy City the president of the court of appeal looked about him, noted Scotsmen passing the Christian Sabbath desolate. They had no church. So he appealed to the Established and United Free Churches of Scotland, for a memorial church. He has got $40,000, needs...