Word: sibyl
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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What Christian Scientists have objected to in all but the authorized life of Mrs. Eddy (The Life of Mary Baker Eddy by Sibyl Wilbur) are alleged misstatements, "obnoxious," libelous, about the founder of Christian Science. Author Dakin's book says that Mary Baker Eddy plagiarized, took morphine, made no miraculous cures...
...descendants of Moses. All the sons were united though they scattered to the ends of Europe for the first international banking concern. Probably they came from their magnificent palaces to see Amschel the Younger, head of the House, and to consult the aged Gudula, Die Uralte, an illiterate Sibyl who had vowed never to quit her chair by the window "save only for the tomb." Finally, although Count Corti does not note it, 46 of the descendants of Meyer Amschel had intermarried before the 19th century was out, in a burst of shocking eugenics and sound economics...
...sculptor of this announcement, who according to documentary evidence was called in 1467 from Strassburg to Vienna in order to execute. The Emperor's Tomb at St. Stephen's Cathedral, is probably identical with Nicolaus von Leyden, the sculptor of the two remarkable busts of a Prophet and a Sibyl in the former Chancellery at Strassburg, casts of which are in the Germanic Museum...
...secret diplomacy. He still employs all its stock phrases, catch-subterfuges which seldom deceive a rabbit-for example, he never "goes on a mission" but "travels for his health." Yet when cornered and pressed for categorical answers to specific questions he speaks with the adroit tongue of a sibyl or a Machiavelli. Last week he arrived at Paris as expected (TIME, Dec. 7), and the Olympian game of interrogating him was resumed by correspondents, with the following results...
...cast follows: Isaiah H.C. Fox '28 Aaron M.L. Bell '29 Sibyl Helen Chandler High Priest G.K. Bishop '27 Saint Augustine G.G. Ackerson '27 Mary Helen Lewis First Angel Rhodita Edwards Elizabeth Grace Michelman Joseph C.C. Wooley '29 First King Murray Pease '26 Second King D.W. Moreland '28 Third King F.K. Smith '29 First Messenger Charles Hicks '27 Second Messenger W.D. McKerrow '28 Herod D.L. Dickson '27 First Shepherd Charles Iseatherbee '29 Second Shepherd James Pales '28 Third Shepherd L.J. Schrelber '27 Devil D.F. Robinson '26 Second Angel Mary Caperton Third Angel Constance Templeton Fourth Angle Helen Goodrich Choristers M.M. Stevenson...