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...high priestess of Terpsichore," ecstatically crooned the Washington Post, "erected a shrine to the goddess of her choice in the New National Theatre here, and enacted a stirring program of beautiful dances, as varying in moods and caprices as the April day of thunder, lightning, snow and hail outside the theatre walls...
...Poona abode became a shrine after his release on Feb. 4 (TIME, Feb. 11). Hindus nocked to receive their marching orders from the father of noncooperation. These were the orders...
...President and Mrs. Coolidge attended the unveiling of a "shrine" in the Library of Congress in which are exhibited the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. These documents have for about 30 years been kept from the public because they were fading and deteriorating. They are now in a marble case, with a glass top and special film of gelatin to prevent harm from injurious light rays...
Died. Andrew Baker, 87, famed Adirondacks' woodsman. Robert Louis Stevenson spent the Winter of 1887-88 at Mr. Baker's cottage which later became a literary shrine at which the annual meetings of the Stevenson Society of America are now held...
...Great Teacher came. He was Baha' O'llah (Blessed Manifestation). He was the grandson of a Grand Vizier of Persia. He died in 1892, but left a son who had been born May 23, 1844. The son-Abdul Baha-kept a shrine at Akka, Syria. He died in 1921, after having been knighted by King George V for War-services. He loved "flowers and light...