Word: portion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...most characteristic portion is the Prophets' Play which was based on a sermon which had been attributed to Saint Augustine since the fifth century. In this sermon St. Augustine represents nine Hebrew prophets and three Gentiles Nebuchadnezzar, Virgil and a Sibyl as reasoning with the Jews in an effort to persuade them that Jesus was the Messiah. In the play Isaiah, Daniel, the Sibyl and Aaron in turn speak their prophecies and then intone a chant...
...rapier Michael Scarlett, young Earl of Dunbury, fought his way through stirring Elizabethan times. Marlowe, Nash, Shakespeare, Donne, Jonson, were his cronies. Essex and Southampton were his friends. Elizabeth's favor and her disfavor were his fortune. A fair lady was his love. And death was his portion, and Marlowe...
...international social worker, presented $4,232,467.01 worth of budgetary reports, as General Secretary of the National Council. Once he declined to be U. S. Minister to China; his acceptance of other responsibilities has been without reserve. Sonorously he entoned a list of 30 countries in which a major portion of the association's funds were spent last year...
...Cambridge appearances of the Boston Symphony Orchestra are proving to be very well attended. Subscribers have secured a large portion of the limited space in Sanders Theatre, so that tickets for single concerts are at a premium...
...Duke, no miser, graciously accepted. Straightway the documents were brought forth, reclassified, found to contain a priceless series of contemporary royal decrees affecting Columbus, as well as a great portion of the correspondence between the great navigator and Queen Isabella...