Word: mundy
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...spread. His reputation, which neither the U. S., British, German or French Who's Who yet record, went ahead of him to a few artists and mystics. They formed a circle which widened. Money came to Nicholas Roerich and his hopes. His acolytes created for him Corona Mundi (Crown of the World) International Art Centre, and gathered together a thin frame of art from all nations of the earth...
...Book closes on the year 5688 Anno Mundi Friday evening Sept. 14. This time its mystic writings contain happy records: anti-Jewish riots suppressed in Rumania, Hungary, Poland, Russia; Jewish students permitted education practically everywhere; farm colonization in Russia; the economic depression in Palestine overcome; Zionists at last agreeing; Jews and Christians holding love feasts in England and the U. S.; proselytizing of U. S. Jews discouraged; Jewish education aggressively pushed throughout the U. S.; a non-religious renaissance of Hebrew culture everywhere. Jews have become exuberant and expansive in the happy circumstance of tolerance. Their chief fear...
...also wrote the libretto. Then came the Russian revolutions. His St. Petersburg became Petrograd, Leningrad. He hustled to New York (1920). In Manhattan he founded the Master Institute of United Arts, "uniting all the arts and giving to young America the spirit of creation." He founded another institution-Corona Mundi (Crown of the World), International Art Center, to take pictures (his own mostly) "directly to the people." New U. S. friends organized for him the Roerich Museum to hold his swift paintings. That museum now has about 750 of his 3,000 works. Other productions are in the Louvre, Luxembourg...
Folk whom an age of exaggeration has not robbed of their capacity to marvel at superlatives, or to criticize them, last week visited an extraordinary exhibition in a Manhattan building modestly called "Corona Mundi" (crown of the world) on Riverside Drive. It was an exhibition of skyscrapers*- models, photographs and designs -assembled by an architect whose livelihood and reputation are in the building of skyscrapers, Alfred C. Bossom. When Manhattan should have gazed its fill, the exhibition was to go on tour...
...Post Roard stand on their porches, shivering in the November dawn, chatting and awaiting the Sears cortege. After it has passed, headed by the ambitious lady, they so back to bed. And by the time they have fallen asleep the parade is miles beyond. For sic transit gloria mundi, gloria pedes and gloria Eleanora...