Word: virginal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Three women went to the tomb on the first Easter Sunday. They were Mary Magdalene, Mary, sister of the Virgin and mother of the cousins of Christ. James and Joses, and Salome.* When they arrived the tomb was open. Mary, mother of James, saw an angel and Mary Magdalene saw two angels and saw and heard her Lord. The last miracle had not failed. The Pharisees soon heard the news they had feared: Christos kai apethane kai anesteh-Christ both died and rose...
Dealer Demotte owned a statuette of the Virgin and Child which he called a 13th century Limoges enamel. He was fond of describing how Queen Isabella of Spain, one of its owners, had caused a niche to be cut under the pommel of her saddle to contain the statuette. With this tiny shrine she could jaunt while worshiping, or worship while jaunting...
...slowly fading into groans of despair as the repeal of the "Meanings" clause of the book censorship code daily nears realization. That good old institution whereby the youth of Boston has been preserved from the contaminating influence of modern literature is tottering on the edge of oblivion. The virgin purity of the children that so blithly play about the Frog Pond is now laid open to the nefarious advances of "unfit" literature...
...most people have made up their minds one way or another about the virgin birth of Jesus Christ. Yet so potent is the subject that shrewd Evangelist William Ashley ("Billy") Sunday has chosen it as the main theme of his latest barnstorming tour. In Elyria, Ohio, he gospel-shouted last week: "God made Adam and Eve without human agencies. So he certainly could create Jesus in a supernatural manner...
...argued that to deny the Virgin Birth was to doubt that Mary was a "good woman...