Word: pillars
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tall, ascetic Opposition pillar of British morality, Viscount Cecil, rebutted: "I suggest that the Four Power Conference was to enable Hitler to get out of his [Godesberg] position with the least loss of reputation...
...life of Jesse James. Playwright Ginty, with some support from history, has made James (Dean Jagger) into a droll sort of Jekyll & Hyde who, when not "riding out," is Thomas Howard of St. Joe, Mo., a sober family man with a mousy wife (Dorothy Gish), and a pillar of the local Baptist church...
...amount of weathering and other evidence in the bowl indicate that it was formed not less than 700 years ago and not more than 5,000 years. The Indians of the region have a legend that one of their gods descended to Earth at the spot in a pillar of fire. To this day they will not use or carry away the metallic meteorites which have been found in abundance in and near the crater. These fragments, ranging from a few ounces to 1,400 lb., constitute the majority of the metallic meteorites recovered anywhere in the world. They show...
...sympathetic friend dragged him on a painful tour of the Holy Land - painful because Reeves's grief deepened in the grim and melancholy country and because he felt one of his rare epileptic attacks coming on. As he entered the Temple he felt dizzy, leaned on a pillar for support, realized he was fainting and looked at his watch. It was 23 minutes to six. That incident takes place on page 49 of Hearken unto the Voice. On page 775 Reeves is still looking at his watch and the time is still 23 minutes...
...intervening 726 pages are only indirectly Reeves's story. In that instant there leaps into his mind the tormented figure of Jeremiah, the prophet of doom, who in the reign of King Josiah had leaned against a pillar in the Temple and stared at a leather amulet on his wrist as Reeves had stared at his wrist watch. The rest of the story is really Jeremiah's. It follows him back to his lonely childhood outside Jerusalem, through his exile, apostasy, agony, to his final peace. His wife, like Reeves's wife, had died in Egypt. Because...