Word: robes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lost in 1899 by marrying Russian Prince Michael Cantacuzene. Regretting that she had been unable to get accommodations in anything more humble than tourist class of the Majestic, Mirabai (Madeleine Slade), British disciple of Mahatma Gandhi, arrived in Manhattan after a stormy passage. Said Mirabai, shivering in woolen robe and sandals: "Miss Slade died nine years ago when I renounced the world. ... I shall try to give Mahatma's point of view. . . . Who can say that he is greater or less than your Christ? ... He is my Christ...
...only child, she could see all her five grandchildren, three of her great grandchildren. Mr. & Mrs. Norman Hezekiah Davis, Mr. & Mrs. Henry Morgenthau Sr., Col. & Mrs. Edward Mandell House were also on hand to wish the smiling dowager happy birthday. The President presented her with a fur motor robe, proposed a toast and was given the first frosty wedge cut by his mother from her double-decker cake...
Almost as white as the white robe he wore, Negro Actor Richard B. Harrison ("De Lawd" of The Green Pastures) sat under a spotlight before 30,000 spectators in Chicago's Soldier Field one night last week. Three blacks to one white, they were there to see and hear 0 Sing a New Song, a gigantic three-act pageant of the Negro race. The solemn words of Narrator Harrison put in motion a sight & sound spectacle that required the voices of 5,000 U. S. blacks, the wild antics of a handful of Basuto tribesmen brought from Africa...
...left to bury. Next day in overalls and gingham the "Immortals," who support themselves by farming, chanted a requiem as Brother Isaiah was lowered into the earth. He lay in a plain pine box, his head pointed toward the north, his long, white whiskers flowing over his long, white robe. His followers plowed and harrowed the earth above him, went away to await his second coming...
...lived to enter the Jesuit mission at Caughnawaga as Christian converts. But four more Jesuits and two lay companions died martyrs' deaths before the Iroquois began to relent. And never until scholarly, unassuming Michael Jacobs, born Wishe Karhaienton, was ordained, had a full-blooded Mohawk Iroquois donned the black robe which made him a spiritual brother of Isaac Jogues and Jean de Breb?...