Word: prophets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Faithful, holiest of months is Ramadan when by command of the prophet no Mussulman may eat from dawn to sunset. Ramadan ended last week, spectacularly in three places...
...some extent Dr. Butler is a prophet greater outside his own country than in it. Certainly he has not acquired the position of national wiseman occupied by Har vard's late great Charles William Eliot. Although often held up as a horrible ex ample of mass-production-educator, he is better appreciated by the superior few who recognize the quality of his own ideas than by the democratic many for whom he spreads out a quantity of learning. But whether he is judged by the institution he created or by the friends he has made, it could be said...
...Prophet Mohammed in the Holy Koran set no minimum age for brides. The Government's new law setting a minimum age of 16, argued the Koranic priests, was clearly un-Mohammedan, since all that the Prophet specified was that a bride should be "marriageable." Meeting the Church on its own ground last week the Ministry of Justice agreed to alter the law so that when a prospective bride is less than 16 years old she may petition the Ministry of Health, claiming to be "marriageable" and offer herself for scientific examination. If Science decides in her favor...
...Nationalist Government of President Chiang Kai-shek (see col. 2) last week raised an echoing rumble from Shanghai. In Shanghai lives a demigod's relict, the widow of the late great Dr. Sun Yatsen, who lies in a $3,000,000 tomb outside Nanking, venerated as the prophet of the Chinese Republic. Mme Sun Yat-sen was educated at Wesleyan College, Macon, Ga. and Wellesley. She is a sister-in-law of Chiang Kai-shek and a member of the "Soong Dynasty," the family that controlled the Nationalist Government. But like her Russian counterpart, Krupskaya, widow of the great...
...artist of the Renaissance, Tintoretto painted the legend of the "exceeding delicate" Susanna, wife of Joakim, who was spied on by two amorous elders while taking an oil bath with "washing balls" in an orchard. The repulsed elders accused her of adultery. Attorney for the defense was the young prophet Daniel who proved perjury by examining the witnesses separately. Puritans who object to the depiction of Susanna in art cannot read about her in their Bibles. Omitted from the King James version, the story may be found in the Douay version (for Roman Catholics), Daniel XIII...