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...Miriam (Hebrew for Mary) is a gentle, devout girl whose life has been spent in the peaceful town of Nazareth, feeding the animals, drawing the water for the family, tending the vegetable garden, pressing oil for the lamps, learning how to pound spices. Wild animals are tame in her presence; the fawn and the doe approach her fearlessly. And, like many a daughter in Israel, she dreams of one day bearing the child who will grow up to be the King-Messiah...
When she makes a visit to the temple in Jerusalem, she gets a premonition of her destiny in the words of an aged visionary who points a bony finger at Miriam and cries: "Mark her well, you women . . . From her womb shall Israel's Redeemer come...
...Miriam Van Waters, head of the Framingham state prison for women, brought her state-wide campaign to arouse public interest in modern penology to the Canterbury Club (Episcopal) last night...
...uppercut from the floor - now they're bringing Tiger up from the floor."). She played every character in a "Pageant of American Womanhood" that included Queen Victoria, Florence Nightingale and a hilarious Joan of Arc, as well as such authentic native daughters as Barbara Frietchie, Ruby Foo and Miriam, the mother of Irium. As Pocahontas ("better-known by her Indian name, Alka-Seltzer"), Ethel Merman tomahawked a marauding redskin who was stalking Captain John Smith. "Like George Washington, I cannot tell-um lie," she cried triumphantly. "I chop down Cherokee...
...wonder of our society is not why feeble-minded people get into state prisons, but why feebleminded people can get into state legislatures," Miriam Van Waters, Superintendent of the Women's Reformatory at Framingham, said last night. She spoke on "Crime and Culture" before the Iota Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa in Radcliffe's Agassiz House...