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Word: latters (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gospel of justice for workingmen. He protested publicly against the 75?-per-day wages which some members of his flock were paying, invited labor organizers to speak from his pulpit. Irate deacons soon gave him a choice of quitting his agitating or quitting his pulpit. He quit the latter, went to work for Chevrolet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Automobile Armageddon | 1/18/1937 | See Source »

...Fire. Finally they beheld a 14-scene pageant, "March of the Monarchs," made up like the graduation service by Sister Aimee, in which accordion, saxophone and bell music was interspersed with appearances of Pharaoh, Herod, Attila, Napoleon, Edward VIII, Darwin, Lenin, Mussolini, Hitler, Uncle Sam and Jesus Christ, the latter arriving before the massed cast in a turbulent burst of sound and color to demonstrate His superiority to the other rulers and to inform the audience that He would return again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Sisters v. Satan | 1/18/1937 | See Source »

...initial one in which Abraham, having ascended a mountain some 50 ft. high and as far to the rear of the stage's front apron, lays Isaac on a stone altar and is prevented from slaying him only by the sudden intercession of the Heavenly Host. The latter consists of rows of angels banked 60 ft. higher and seeming to reach out of sight. Coiling up and down tne heights and planes and depths of the amazing Bel Geddes stage, the legends of Jacob's loss of Rachel, Joseph's dispatch into Egypt. Moses and the fugitive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Jan. 18, 1937 | 1/18/1937 | See Source »

Harry McN. Brown, Jr. '40 and David Langworthy '40 have made tentative plans for an exhibition of Undergraduate Surrealism to be held in the latter half of the first week after midyears...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD SURREALISTS TO SHOW PRODUCTIONS | 1/18/1937 | See Source »

Unfortunately, this worthy offering coincides on Saturday afternoon with another excellent recital, that of the popular English pianist Myra Hese. Her varied program includes a Sarabande, Minuet, and Air by Purcell, Schubert's Sonata Opus 143, Schumaun's "Papillons", and Beethoven's "Appassionata" Sonats. The latter is one of her particular triumphs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Music Box | 1/13/1937 | See Source »

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