Word: patriarchate
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Near Nauvoo, Ill., a howling mob shot a onetime candidate for President of the U. S. The victim was Joseph Smith, patriarch of the Mormon Church, and the year was 1844. Last week there was more violence in Nauvoo. Four men, armed with a machine gun and revolvers, raided the Bank of Nauvoo, fled with nearly $8,000 in cash...
Characters: Patriarch Jeeter Lester (Henry Hull), a bent, rickety, boastful, obscene, stealing, lying scion of an old family who has discovered that semi-starvation is the only penalty for doing nothing; his wife Ada (Margaret Wycherly), mother of 16 of whom 13 have forgotten her; her unmanageable harelipped daughter Ellie May, tortured with the abnormal appetites of the deformed; her golden-haired daughter Pearl who somehow manages to remain a wife in name only; Pearl's normal husband Lov who bought her for $7, loves her vainly, beats her moderately; Jeeter and Ada's remaining son Dude whose...
...front-page columns the almost legendary character of Francis X. McQuade. This city magistrate of yesteryear was the unwelcome subject of one of Judge Seabury's most lurid revelations, and the charges projected at him caused the hasty removal of his ponderous bulk from the New York bench. A patriarch among patriarchs, he had scattered largesse with a generous hand to kith and kin; the exact number of relatives to whom he flung the bounteous purse of the city pay-roll was declared, after investigation, to be 39. And the thirty-nine McQuades have occupied and will occupy a foremost...
...play a year regularly. The last was Pigeons & People, a mad comedy which is now on the road. He writes his plays as rehearsals progress, pacing up & down the aisle dictating to a secretary and the actors. He moves about among the cast like a white-polled patriarch, stroking a girl's hair, giving an actor's arm a friendly squeeze. They love it. His motions are all deliberate, but even in his gravity there is a puckishness which matches the amused expression in his half-closed eyes...
Cinema propaganda for peace was urged by Professor Francis J. Onderdonk of the University of Michigan. More exciting was young Yoshiaki Fukuda, head of Japan's Konkokyo (Shinto) sect (not to be confused with the Tenrikyo sect, whose Patriarch Shozen Nakayama, also at the Parliament, talked about the sect's foundress, his great-grandmother-TIME, Aug. 28). Shintoist Fukuda flayed as "sentimental" any pacifism which ignores "hindrances"-such as Japan's need for territory. Shintoist Fukuda, like Publisher William Randolph Hearst (see p. 21) and members of last fortnight's Banff conference, admitted war between Japan...