Word: moroni
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years later an angel named Moroni appeared to Joe. Introducing himself as one from the lost tribes who had emigrated to South America 600 years before Christ, Moroni told Joe the location of a set of golden plates in a cave near Palmyra. With them would be found a code key, or Urim and Thummim. Four years later, Joe, a giant weighing almost 200, began translating the plates.* He dictated to a schoolteacher named Oliver Cowdery. God, said Joe, had revealed that Cowdery was to put the revelations into fit English. To a prosperous farmer named Harris he transmitted...
...Hill Cumorah, near Palmyra in upstate New York, members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints last Week celebrated the 111th anniversary of the birth of Mormonism. According tc Mormon lore, on Cumorah, where now stands a large statue of the Angel Moroni, Founder Joseph Smith received from the angel the gold tablets on which the Book of Mormon was inscribed...
...considered complete without a garish glimpse of San Francisco boom days. Gold Is Where You Find It takes time out from battle to attend a gilt-edged house party where the whiskery guests of honor are General U. S. Grant (Walter Rogers) and U. S. Senator George Hearst (Moroni Olsen). The Senator confides: "I'm worried about this boy of mine. Willie. . . . He wants to go into the newspaper business." With sympathetic nods the host agrees that there is no money in the newspaper business...
...Little, Brown and Company in Boston. A very interesting collection of his essays and articles on literature, history, education. Enjoyed the long chapter entitled "The Centennial of Mormonism" about Joseph Smith, Brigham Young, Mormons are not necessarily polygamists etc. Joseph Smith found the golden tablets of the Angel Moroni on a hilltop in Palmyra, New York. When the Vagabond was little he went to Palmyra once, on Decoration Day, to see an auto-race...
...France (Rosamond Pinchot) retrieves a brooch injudiciously entrusted to an English admirer, it reveals D'Artagnan as an incompetent young cavalier whose headlong efforts to combat an international intrigue are successful only because the villainess treats him with uncalled for generosity and because Athos (Paul Lukas), Porthos (Moroni Olsen) and Aramis (Onslow Stevens ) interest themselves in drying him behind the ears. Good sequence: the three musketeers overtaking the coach in which Milady de Winter (Margot Grahame) has kidnapped D'Artagnan...