Word: patriarchate
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...asked to speak at Rotary Clubs, to colleges and congregations wherever the show went, and his most prized possession is the Bible from the Clergy Club of New York, with the names of all its members inscribed. Governors of States shook his hand as, like an ancient patriarch, Actor Harrison led his theatrical flock about the land. And the first thing he did after alighting from his train in Manhattan last week was to go and see Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia. "Will I meet any politicians in Heaven, Lawd?" asked the head of the city with the world's largest...
...banging the last few nails into the Ark with his stone hammer. His dowdy beard hangs in ringlets. His hoary eyebrows are the size of mustaches. And a wild mop of grey hair tops the benign face of an Irish comedian. Neither the tippler of legend nor the inflexible patriarch of the Bible, Noah's Noah is the simplest of men, worried about his mission but uncomfortably embarrassed each time he has to bother God for further instructions. Full of faith, he needs it all when, with his wife, three sons, three orphaned maidens and the animal kingdom...
...Harvard lacks a soul, that University Hall is merely another manifestation of the bureaucratic trend in American institutions, harsh and unfeeling, meting out judgment to wrongdoers. For with Christmas in the air, even the patriarch of Deans has fallen prey to the good will of the holiday season. As his present to upperclassmen, Dean Hanford has spread the glad tidings that no attendance will be taken Saturday in courses other than those regularly open to Freshmen...
First pictures of the conviction of Priest Inouye's boys reached the U. S. last week, erroneously captioned to suggest that they belonged to patriarch Toyama's Black Dragon Society. It has suffered no such indignity at the hands of Japan's black-capped judges. Inouye's less fortunate "boys" were sentenced to jail for life, which in Japan means for life...
...Jeeter Lester, the ragged, flea-bitten patriarch of Tobacco Road, is beginning to take on some of the qualities of Hamlet. A great number of actors want to play it, and, by last week, three already...