Word: amenities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Broomsticks, Amen! (by Elmer Greensfelder; produced by Thomas Kilpatrick). "All things come in threes," intones the patriarch of the Hofnagel family, holding aloft a length of red string. "Birth, life and death. Sun. moon and stars. Father, mother and child." The old man is "doing for" a neighbor's sick baby. From head to foot over the infant, lying on a table beneath his rapt gaze, he draws the red string from which he then plucks some invisible thing and casts it aside. He mutters "sanctious words," with his own hand scoops away the evil aura enveloping the small...
James Henry Breasted, famed Orientalist of the University of Chicago, announced he was going back to work on King Tut-Ankh-Amen's tomb in March. Of the Sunday-supplement "Curse of the Pharaohs," which is supposed to kill off Egyptian tomb-snoopers and which was revived last fortnight by the death of famed British Egyptologist Arthur E. P. B. Weigall (TIME, Jan. 15), Professor Breasted chortled: "All tommyrot! I defy that curse. And if anyone was exposed to it I was. For two weeks I slept in the tomb of King Tut-Ankh-Amen and took my meals...
...never felt better in his life after sleeping for two weeks in King Tut-Ankh-Amen's Tomb...
Died. Arthur Edward Pearse Brome Weigall, 53, British Egyptologist, discoverer of the tomb of Akhnaton (famed liberal ruler and religion remodeler), novelist, biographer, member of the Tut-Ankh-Amen tomb-opening party in Luxor; after a long illness which his friends said was "mysterious"; in London. Revived were stories of the Pharaoh curse which the superstitious hold responsible for the deaths of 20 members of the Luxor party, and to which Weigall himself was supposed to have given some credence...
...common Father. . . . O righteous God, frown upon all Mammon worship and hasten the time when the world over shall become just and generous, and by Thy touch man everywhere shall receive the blessing that he needs. In the name of our Elder Brother and the world's Saviour. Amen...