Word: angeling
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...play called The Ladder opened in Boston this week. It closed in Manhattan last sennight, having run 107 weeks, costing its "angel," Edgar B. Davis, an estimated 10% of his estimated $15,000,000 oil fortune. As everyone knows,* the play concerns the theosophical doctrine of reincarnation, to which Millionaire-Angel Davis sincerely, munificently subscribes. It meandered between four theatres, was rewritten many times,† had a period of "revision" during which the public was admitted free. Frequently Millionaire-Angel Davis gave bonuses of $20-gold pieces, paid well the cast, the author, J. Frank Davis (no blood relation...
...have. Art theatres and experimental playhouses the nation over can only envy the financial resources that makes its existence possible and contemplate the splendid uses to which they could put an equal amount of money. Theatre goers in general may applaud the quiet determination of the first unsuccessful angel who has not burdened the public with a frustrated squealing about an unappreciated mission. And there is still opportunity for Boston, a city that celebrates Armistice Day by parades: to support the reign of paradox and give the "Ladder" a profitable...
...likes potatoes, dumplings, sausages and cabbage, can cook them all herself and turn a handspring when she has finished eating. She hates tobacco smoke and being interviewed. "Make the story yourself," she has told more than one reporter and the results have varied from pictures of a Christmas-tree angel to a proud and haughty diva. Those who meet her find her shy, eager to please...
...posts and on the lintel (Exodus 12, 7) was meant only for that one time, i. e. the time of the actual exodus. This is the accepted opinion of all Talmudic authorities and it is also self evident, since the mark was meant as a signal for the destroying-angel who killed the first born of Egypt to pass over the houses of the Israelites, hence, in subsequent generations when there was no destroying-angel killing Egyptian first born, there was no need of marking Jewish doors...
...which repose two hairs from the beard of the True Prophet. A Christian may adore the stone on which Jesus found miraculously inscribed, the name of his Father In Heaven ("Shem"), by pronouncing which he worked miracles. Jews can see the place where Abraham was stayed by the Angel's hand from offering up Isaac. Nearby is the Coffin of Mohammed, adorned with 17 golden nails. It is written that when they all fall out the World will come to an end. Furthermore by listening at the Sacred Stone one may still hear the subsiding waters of the Biblical...