Word: messiahs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...much of his influence over the Egyptians since the British House of Commons proclaimed the independence of Egypt (1922) and since he himself was released from all British coercion and became Premier (1924). He still reigns over the Wafd, but has been too thoroughly "unmartyred" to retain his once Messiah-like popularity...
...although it differed from that of Dr. Edward Hickling Bradford,* surgeon, orthopedist and Dean of the Harvard Medical School. The professional opposition to him raged, not against his operative principles and methods, rather against the noisy publicity newspapers gave him. The press touted him as a miracle worker, a Messiah come to redeem the halt and the lame. Cameramen got him, always genial and accommodating, to pose in ridiculous circumstances. One picture showed him kinked over and looking solemnly at the twisted head of a boy whom he had cured. The doctor, in his overcoat and without his hat. looked...
...Reverend John Haynes Holmes '02 of New York City, will speak this evening in Peabody Hall at 8 o'clock on Mahatina Gandhi, the great Indian spiritual leader. Dr. Holmes is at present minister of the Community Church of New York, which was formerly the Church of the Messiah. He is also well-known as a lecturer and as the author of "New Wars for Old," and "The Life and Letters of Robert Collyer" and numerous books of a religious nature...
...surgical students to his amphitheatre, students who might later attend his Viennese clinics to his legitimate profit as a teacher. But the press took him up; touted him throughout the land; raised fond hopes in hearts of cripples everywhere. These rushed to his free clinics. He was their Messiah. Back of his tired, wrinkled brow, back of his white beard and moustache, they saw only the kindly doctor. From overwork he almost broke down. Then the American Medical Association and other regular societies pitched on him, lambasted him, almost kept him from getting his license to practice in New York...
...also spoke whose mind and body and mortal affairs have been prepared for assumption by the Saviour in the near future-J. Krishnamurti, whom Mrs. Besant brought to England in 1908 to be educated at Oxford and nurtured in pious humility. This Messiah-designate is now 30 and before and after his transfiguration will tour the world with twelve 'apostles" chosen by and including Mrs Besant. A publicity corps will herald his comings, echo his goings. Last week, by way of preparing the world to receive him, he said...