Word: messiah
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bismarckian stature, a figure clothed with the aura as well as the fact of Power. Thus Der Führer was recently painted in what is today his favorite portrait (see cut). Up went the Opera House curtain in Berlin last week, and the world strained its ears as Messiah Hitler shared with his chosen Nazi Disciples the latest revelations of his almost feminine intuition...
...shilly-shally about getting himself elected. Last autumn after fumbling for months with the idea of standing for re-election he went to the hustings, made as many as three to five speeches a day, filled about five-sixths of them with praise of Roosevelt as a practical Messiah, one-sixth with a personal appeal on the theme, "How can you turn me down if you believe in liberal Government...
Handel's great oratorio, the "Messiah," is being given by the Handel and Haydn Society in Symphony Hall on Sunday evening, December 20. For those who will be around Boston at that time and have not heard this famous work, here is an excellent opportunity to hear a good performance...
...fraction returned the compliment in a pre-election poll by United Press in which 240 Congressmen-to-be declared themselves stanchly opposed to the oldster's Plan. With Dr. Townsend thus proved politically harmless, U. S. Attorney Leslie C. Garnett announced in Washington last week that the onetime messiah would be prosecuted forthwith on the contempt citation voted against him last spring when he walked out on a House investigating committee (TIME, June...
...Messiah's Message. Suspense having been nicely built up in Nürnberg he arose to speak at last-Der Führer. This year the haupttribüne or grandstand for distinguished Germans privileged to sit behind the Realmleader was 1,000 feet wide and the pedestal from which he speaks had become a lofty pinnacle. With blaring bands, solemn chanting, clockwork goose-stepping and dramatic searchlight and spotlight work, Adolf Hitler was made to appear more than ever what in fact he is-the Teuton Messiah. He had a Message this year bolder than ever before...