Word: miriam
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...Miriam Chapin, sister of Curtice Hitchcock, New York publisher, came across Bonheur in Montreal. When she had read Author Roy's story of life in St. Henri, a smoky slum section of Montreal, she mailed a copy to her brother. Reynal & Hitchcock agreed to publish it. They changed the title to The Tin Flute, and had the book translated into English. Then New York's Literary Guild, whose million members make it the largest book club in the world, read the manuscript. It announced that The Tin Flute will be its May selection, the first work...
With an eye to the rapidly-appreaching Executive meetings in Chicago this month at which plans for a N. S. O. draft constitution will be formulated, the conferees, briefed by Miss Miriam Haskell of Smith, Massachusetts regional representative to the coming meetings, on their opinions of the issues that will be discussed...
Greer Garson, Miriam Hopkins, and Grace Moore moved something called the Hollywood Bachelors' Club to the week's unlikeliest outburst of self-expression. These three ladies, said the fellows, were their very favorite "cats." Then the bachelors explained: "Kittenish dames give us the wim-wams. But it takes a smart woman to be downright catty...
...years has seen one or two changes in stage method and technique, and only a very brisk and inventive production-such as Broadway got 16 years ago with Miriam Hopkins, Ernest Truex and Sydney Greenstreet in the cast-can make Lysistrata's joke funny enough for a whole evening. Last week's all-Negro production never even got off to a promising start...
...Female"-i.e., of Jehovah's predecessor, rival and unacknowledged consort, the Great Mother Goddess or Triple Moon Goddess, known in the Eastern Mediterranean lands by various names, including Hecate and Astarte. She had ruled Canaan before the Israelites came; her worship included ritual prostitution, and Jesus' mother Miriam (Mary in the English Scriptures) had actually been born, so the High Priest said, "under the old dispensation," as a result of a dreamlike unmarital incident in a garden during the Feast of Tabernacles. Jesus' losing struggle with the Female was the drama of his public life...