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...sure that the churches of Christ are all really favoring a mechanized calendar? . . . Should any, past the time when the moon means much to them, be allowed to remove this happy last irregularity from our lives? . . . Long since, the noble signs of the zodiac were ignored by the bespectacled time-meters, and they are by this near two weeks out of our monthly reckoning. Now Easter Day is to have the full moon resplendent no more in her sky. . . . It is pretty bad. We're going to stop being lunatics after all. The moon is to be evicted from...
...Manhattan's St. Mark's-in-the-Bouwerie, Pastor William Norman Guthrie was celebrating the "Christian Office of the Children of the Zodiac," a memorial service for the late Astrologist Evangeline Adams. As the congregation sang a hymn, Dr. Guthrie lit a Eucharistic candle. His surplice sleeve brushed against a row of lighted candles, flared up. The congregation stopped singing, resumed again as Dr. Guthrie, with little help, slapped out the blaze with his hand...
According to Japan's zodiac 1932 was the "Year of the Ape," 1933 is the "Year of the Cock." Loudly crowed bantamweight War Minister Araki on New Year...
...late Financier Thomas Fortune Ryan, was declared a judgment debtor by default to Tiffany & Co. (jewelers & silversmiths) for $75,005 for 330 items charged to his account in 14 months. Generous Mr. Ryan showers his friends with presents-diamond roosters, coral monkeys, oxblood coral Buddhas, zodiac charms, brooches, bracelets, a handbound copy of the encyclical on marriage to Pope Pius XI. Lately he bought 30 niblicks to give away. Absentminded, poetic, he forgets his bills (haberdashery accounts totalling $3,160.75 were also judged against him last week). Restored to health after years of invalidism he now spends much time...
...Semitic Museum and is a highly decorative structure in brick, cement, and marble, consisting of two main stories, a penthouse and a two-floored basement. Around the outside between the first and second stories are twelve round carved marble plaques set in the walls, depicting the signs of the zodiac. On. entering, one is faced by a wide marble staircase similar to the one in Widener but not as large. Paneling and painting are now being done in the interior...