Word: pilgrims
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wears red trousers and horns, but it is easy to see what he really is. He is a sporting blood, a race-track Satan, a ginmill Beelzebub; he has a bottle of red-eye liquor in his hand and is not stingy with his drinks. The Wayworn Traveler, the Pilgrim of Faith, the Troubled Soul, the Poor Blind Girl, the Pilgrim of Hope, the Widow and her Children and the Bedridden Woman all get past him safely. Walking up to St. Peter's throne, they sing "Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen...
...gets to Heaven, they turn her out. She whispers "Too late!" and goes down to the Devil. He also gets the Hypocrite, a housewife who follows Satan and wears his flowers while singing "I'm on My Way to Heaven." The Devil keeps her dancing. Finally, the Pilgrim of Determination marches past the Devil, singing "I'm Going Through." When she reaches the throne, the Negro audiences at Heaven Bound shout loudly. The choir of Saints, Angels and Pilgrims sing more songs-"Great Day," "Going to Shout All Over God's Heaven," "Every Time I Feel...
...does not bite her country's hand; unlike Edith Wharton (whose example influenced her early work) she casts no nostalgic backward glances toward Europe; unlike Ernest Hemingway, she carries no gnawing fox in her devoted bosom. Her simple, colloquial language obeys the canon of good prose (she rereads Pilgrim's Progress annually), and in that is unremarkable. But she has an individual quality, positive attributes which hide their light under a phrase or even a paragraph, but which shine through her pages like moonlight under water. When she was much younger (she is 54) she used to read...
...Fourth of July is celebrated discreetly in London with a banquet by the Pilgrim Society, a few wreaths on Trafalgar Square's statue of George Washington, and flags in front of the American Express. The date is seldom significant to the British art world. Tardy British art lovers this year remembered July 4, hurried to the Lefevre Galleries of King Street to attend the last day of the season's most important exhibition since the Persian show in Burlington House (TIME, Jan. 12). It was the largest showing of the paintings of Pablo Ruiz Picasso ever held. Dealers...
...industry for a new subject." Originally in the insurance business, John Drinkwater first attracted England's attention as a poet, then wrote plays in verse, then in prose. Some of them: Abraham Lincoln, Robert E. Lee, Alary Stuart. He has also written biographies: Mr. Charles, King of England, The Pilgrim of Eternity...