Word: testamental
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most spectacular provision of eccentric, wealthy Lawyer Charles Vance Millar's last will & testament was an award of his estate's residue to the Toronto woman who, in ten years after his death, would prove to be the city's champion child-producer. A bachelor, Mr. Millar was not experienced enough to foresee a tie. After 17 months of legal haggling, the prize money of Toronto's famed "stork derby" was awarded last week. Four buxom, prolific, poor mothers, each having produced nine children during the ten-year period, split the money between them, received checks...
Among the numerous Jewish political groups of Palestine is an extreme rightist organization called the New Zionist Organization, also known as the Jewish Fascists. This young men's society, a terrorist group in its original Polish homeland, believes in the Old Testament eye-&-tooth principle when dealing with both British and Arabs. The New Zionists' politics are repugnant to both the British Passport Office and the Zionist-operated Central Palestine Bureau. So visa applications to Palestine are invariably combed to eliminate the Jewish Fascists. A few have nevertheless slipped through...
...years these words from the testament of Mrs. Ellen Phillips Samuel have been so many thorns in the flesh of the Fairmount Park Art Association of Philadelphia. Plump, exacting Mrs. Samuel died in 1913, leaving the association $765,000 to execute her row of dreamed-of statues along the Schuylkill's east bank. Mrs. Samuel's dream, however, gave the association the willies. They thought it smacked of waxworks...
...would hinder us in the full and free preaching of the whole counsel of God." In the opening sermon, to which Baptists annually look forward as representing the very best tradition of Southern preaching, Dr. John Richard Sampey, retiring president, said: "An intelligent and convinced Baptist, with the New Testament in his hand, finds little to draw him toward a church which denies the competence of the individual soul to do business with God through Christ Jesus as the sole mediator. We cannot get the consent of our minds to surrender the freedom with which Jesus Christ...
Featuring 50 pages of candid camera shots of house members engaged in various extra-curricular activities, the Deacons Testament, Kirkland House yearbook, will appear in the first week of June...