Word: sects
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...magnetic beauty which could attract, creating intense desire; but could not hold, for within that magnificent body lurked a spirit easily stirred, which sometimes repelled one." Together with her handsome scriptwriter, Marcus Macer, she was sent by the Emperor Trajan to Antioch to satirize the growing sect of Christians out of existence. After 263 pages of intrigue, violence and lust, the story erupts in a holocaust of earthquake and conversion. The earth literally swallows up Marcus, while Cynthia does a quick change from a lubricous actress to a contrite Christian...
Reader Workman (Nov. 10, 1924) thought that TIME showed bias in referring to Methodism as a sect; ED. said he preferred sect to denomination because it was a four-letter word. Reader Goler advised us-correctly -that Airman Wilbur Wright died of typhoid, not pneumonia, as TIME had said. A brief dissertation on the subject of Cain's wife led to a longer one on Calvin Coolidge's mistaking (in a speech) a hit by Baseball's Walter Johnson for an error by Shortstop Jackson. ED. agreed that it would be silly to choose a Chief Executive...
Quebec was placed on trial for its devotion to civil liberties, and Quebec failed. Three times, members of the cantankerous Jehovah's Witnesses sect tried to hold public meetings, and three times angry mobs scattered them...
...days later, at Lachine, a crowd of 2,000 broke up house-to-house distribution of Witness sermons, then besieged Joseph Letellier and three other Witnesses of the sect in Letellier's watch-repair shop. They smashed windows, messed up the shop's front. Three youths were arrested-for throwing stones...
London Indian. Of the 104 passengers on the Mayflower when she rounded the hook of Cape Cod and dropped anchor in Provincetown harbor, none knew anything about farming or fishing. Forty-one were members of the Separatist sect, which had fled to Holland from Scrooby England, a dozen years before. Another 40 were good Anglican churchgoers, shopkeepers and clerks from London and Southwestern England, who had jumped at the chance offered them by the expedition's London backers to pick up a fortune in the new world. The remaining 23, like cooper John Alden, were bonded workmen or indentured...