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...streets; swept flesh before it; and coming smack into a dust cart standing outside the Army and Navy Stores, scattered along the pavement a litter of old envelopes; twists of hair; papers already blood smeared, yellow smeared, smudged with print and sent them scudding to plaster legs, lamp posts, pillar boxes, and fold themselves frantically against area railings." It takes more than graceful, ingenious or suggestively beautiful writing to earn an author the name of "great." As in a cosmic Customs Bureau, everything must be declared, even ideas. And Virginia Woolf's ideas are hard to declare. The suggestion...
...dungeons. Jacob's wife then whispers the magic words, scratches some Hebrew letters on the Golem's forehead and tells him to get started. The rampage in this case does not last long. After bending some iron bars, brushing a few walls and cracking a pillar or two, the Golem (Ferdinand Hart) throws Rudolph out a window. Rabbi Jacob then makes a few more magic motions, and the Golem disappears...
Died- Vivian Jackson, 30, rich University of London astrophysicist and amateur steeplechaser engaged to three-times-divorced Peggy Upton Archer Hopkins Joyce Morner, 48; of injuries received when the sleigh in which they were riding crashed into a hotel portico, pitched him into a pillar; in Samaden, Switzerland...
...before going to Detroit's Central Christian Church in 1920. That church Dr. Jones found in a run-down district, merged it with North Woodward Christian Church, raised money in 1928 for a fine new building for the united congregation. In Detroit, Dr. Jones is a civic pillar and the official Chaplain of famed Nancy Brown's column in the News. Dr. Jones possesses a roomful of Lincolniana and knows the calls of practically all U. S. birds. Dr. Jones's recipe for a good preacher: "He should get religion like a Methodist; experience it like...
...implying an intellectual integrity, a willingness to face facts, and complete freedom from prejudice and passion. It is a high ideal for the future, but much the same as the spirit and purpose that motivated the Puritan forefathers when they chose for their cloud by day and their pillar of fire by night the word "veritas...