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Word: messiahs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...youth, Joanna Southcott of Devonshire, England, was a domestic servant. Later, she became a mystic and dictated prophecies (in rhyme). She fully expected to be the mother of the "true Messiah." But no Messiah came, even though 100,000 people believed in Prophetess Southcott in her heyday. In 1814 she died, leaving an eleven-pound box with instructions that it should not be opened except in time of national stress and in the presence of 24 bishops. During the last century, certain Britishers have been reported as going into trances over this box. However, it was never opened, chiefly because...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Psychical Fun | 5/16/1927 | See Source »

...risen who is baiting the literary public almost as successfully as does Bernard Shaw. Indeed the new messiah once employed the alias "Shaw," and there were those who hoped and whispered that he had been born beneath a Shavian rose. Today, however, weighty British reference works have pinned down this elusive youth with the finality of taxidermists transfixing a butterfly. His name shall be henceforth Col. Thomas Edward Lawrence, his birth date Aug. 15, 1888, his land of origin Wales; and if the taxidermists have made a mistake, the joke is still very much upon the butterfly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NON-FICTION: Welsh Hero* | 4/11/1927 | See Source »

...Easter Hallelujah Vulpius Ave, Verum Corpus Des Pres III. Glorious Apollo Webbe Two Choruses and Ballet from "Orpheus" Gluck O Isis and Osiris from "The Magic Flute" Mozart Four Choruses from "Patience" Sullivan IV. The Nightingale Tchaikovsky The Hundred Pipers Arthur Whiting How Beautiful are the Feet from "The Messiah" Handel "The Messiah" Handel...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UNIVERSITY GLEE CLUB WILL GIVE TWO ANNUAL CONCERTS | 4/5/1927 | See Source »

...Flute Mozart Soloist: J. E. Gurney Four Choruses, from Patience Sullivan The Glee Club IV Four Italian Folk Songs Arranged by Vittoris Giannini Cants 'pe' me Luise Serenatella Tarantella Luciana Miss Giannini Scottish V The Hundred Pipers Folf Song The Nightingale Tchaikovsky How Beautiful are the Feet, from the Messiah Handel The Glee Club

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GLEE CLUB TO SING AT SYMPHONY HALL TONIGHT | 2/17/1927 | See Source »

...Songs; The Turtle Dove Williams Swansea Town Hoist Madrigal Monteverdi O Isis and Isiris from "The Magic Mozart Flute" Four Choruses from "Patience" Sullivan The Glee Club Four Italian Folk Songs Miss Giannini The Hundered Pipers Scottish Folk Songs The Nightingale Chaikovsky How Beautiful Are the Feet, from "The Messiah" Handel The Glee Club

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: VARIED PROGRAM WILL BE GIVEN BY GLEE CLUB | 2/5/1927 | See Source »

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