Word: robe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Examples: The Hand that Drove the Nails is not my novel, but was written by Dr. Fletcher Ray. The film script, originally based on this book . . . deals with the life of Jesus, whereas that excellent book, The Robe, does not deal with the life of Jesus. What I said was that the little short films made by non-profit-making Cathedral Films, Inc. were, by comparison, so good that they beat all other religious films to date "into a cocked...
Under the leadership of Dr. Doreal and his astral remote control, Denver's Brotherhood of the White Temple prospered. By 1942 it had acquired an imposing downtown mansion. Here, pink-cheeked Prophet Doreal, garbed in a gold-trimmed robe of purple silk, addressed his followers from a throne that had once belonged to Mexico's Emperor Maximilian...
...exploits every last one of the most treasured American principles-the brotherhood of races and creeds, human decency, class democracy (it has enough "little men" to man a Liberty ship). Above all, it has a religious theme-and in recent years a slew of novels, good & bad (including The Robe, The Song of Bernadette, The World, the Flesh, and Father Smith) have proved to publishers that in an unhappy world religion, no matter how vulgarized, has a market value second only to sex. In The Miracle, religious faith is trumpeted with a shamelessness that would make an atheist blush...
...representative of British religious film interests, he wanted to: 1) persuade a major producer to make the Life of Christ in Technicolor; 2) start producing a picture based on his own novel, The Hand that Drove the Nails (Hession's considered opinion: "It knocks The Robe into a cocked hat"); 3) set up a "liaison office" between church and cinema to "advise" on and promote Protestant films; 4) campaign for Hollywood's struggling little Cathedral Films, which is now making Bible shorts for church & school...
...Bilbao, the Provincial Governor promised stern enforcement of the ban on bathing suits "so revealing as to be offensive to public modesty." In particular, bathers must immediately robe themselves upon leaving the water. No sun bathing in damp, clinging suits...