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Word: scrawnier (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1934-1934
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...kept on marching, out of Los Angeles. Seattle had him for a while, and other towns in the Northwest. Four years ago he turned up in Oroville, Calif., an old mining town, a little whiter, a little scrawnier and no longer plain John Cudney. He was now Brother Isaiah, 88th & last incarnation of the prophet Isaiah. On a rocky hillside he built a great ramshackle temple for his collection of handkerchiefs, canes and crutches, a colony of tents for 40-odd followers whom he called "Immortals." "I shall live forever," he told them, "and so shall you if you obey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Immortality at Oroville | 8/6/1934 | See Source »

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