Word: saviors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Theodore Roosevelt, Cardinal Newman, Mary Baker Eddy, William McKinley, Frances E. Willard. For years he thought of painting a Christ, but he did not succeed until last year, when in seven hours he finished The Nazarene, or Christ Triumphant, a virile, blond, blue-eyed, silky-haired, silky-bearded Savior (see cut). The Newhouse Galleries in Manhattan and St. Louis held showings of the canvas, in a room by itself. Col. Todd sent reproductions to the Pope, to Albert, King of the Belgians, and to Rt. Rev. Albert Augustus David, Bishop of Liverpool, who recently led some fellow churchmen HI demanding...
...extraordinary Jubilees. In happy 1929 it was the 50th anniversary of his ordination. This troubled year it is (by most calculations) the igooth anniversary of the Passion and Death of Jesus Christ. As a Holy Year it should turn even the most casual Christian to thoughts of his Savior. Whatever material improvement the year may bring, may, after prayer, honestly be attributed by Christians to Christian faith. And once more a Holy Year will serve to remind the world that Pius XI, 261st Pope, once a mountain climber named Ambrogio Damiano Achille Ratti, is at 75 a world figure...
...Chile renounced war in a spirit profoundly Christian, melted down hundreds of cannon to cast "The Christ of the Andes." Last week the huge figure, standing guard between two nations as their Prince of Peace, towered majestic and compassionate above the snow-bogged motorcade. With his left hand the Savior supports a cross taller than himself. The right hand is raised in benediction. Darkness came on as the drivers of the eight sedans jumped out and began vainly to shovel. Slowly the snow-whipped statue vanished into the night. Shivering and whimpering, the 40 young women grew rapidly hysterical, were...
...shut out of France so much meat because of hoof & mouth disease, so many potatoes on account of scab, so much butter because of "taints." More important, during this period Minister of Agriculture Chéron won the firm friendship of his exalted chief, Premier Raymond Poincaré, "Savior of the Franc...
...campaign Democrat Moeur promised all his friends jobs. Last week he was in hot water because he found he had more friends than jobs. A physician, he employs his bedside manner in public. Newsmen consider him profane. Politicians consider him radical. The common people consider him their liberal savior who will somehow deal them reduced taxes...