Word: messiahs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...entered the race merely to split the ticket, were unceremoniously removed from the ballot, a rejection, which, judging from the quality of the other contestants, hardly speaks well for their qualifications. The most promising of the Republicans is Malcolm E. Nichols '99, whose supporters hail him as the new Messiah chiefly because he was able to reduce taxes in the boom years of 1926 to 1929. Indeed his lieutenants are handing out literature to show how low the tax rate was in these years, quite oblivious of the fact that falling property valuations renders this evidence somewhat questionable...
...side; Newshawk Kilgallon, Trolley's satirical, hard-drinking crony, a World War hero and onetime child prodigy singer who has been trying to commit suicide since adolescence; Gus Popolos, a Rasputin-like fanatic who wanders around in a moth-eaten bear rug, proclaims Colonel Steele the new Messiah, finally marries an outsmarted chorus girl; Moussa, a notorious Arab pickpocket, whom nobody understands except Captain Trolley; the mayor's katzenjammer son, whose snooping in Dr. Thumb's traveling bag is rewarded by a small mummified head which turns out to be that of the mayor's long...
...thus, without benedictions, that the Vagabond, who, alas, spent yesterday in sloth and who will spend today in feverish retribution therefor, directs, as a modern Messiah, his followers out of the wilderness of worldly college life to the basement lecture room of Fogg Museum tomorrow at noon. There Professor Kirsop Lake, who knows Palestine as intimately as Winchell knows his Broadway, will read the Bible as it should be read and talk of it as it should be talked of, interpreting its grandeur with alternate wisdom, emotion, and humor...
...long hall. As is traditional, apple-cheeked Rudolf Hess, deputy leader, opened the Congress; Julius Streicher, rabid Jew hater, welcomed the Führer and the party members to Nurnberg, Streicher's own stamping ground. And as is traditional, Hitler did not address the first session, instead sat messiah-like on the haupttribüne while rasping-voiced Adolf Wagner, Munich Nazi leader, read the Fuhrer's Proclamation. Nazis laud the Proclamation as the coming year's party program, indicating in vague generalities the German course in foreign, internal affairs...
...their way. As they later remarked, they "roughed up Simon Peter a bit." One of them descended to the cellar, found Father Divine vainly seeking to "invisibilize" himself behind the furnace. "Peace!" he quavered. "I'll go with you and I'll waive extradition." The Messiah was bundled off to police headquarters in Manhattan. It was after midnight, too late for his three attorneys to arrange bail, so Father Divine spent the rest of the night in jail. In noisy Harlem, miles uptown, word of "God's" plight circulated, and soon the streets near the jail began...