Word: agnosticism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Italians pay allegiance to II Duce, II Papa, II Re. It is no secret, even in censor-ridden Italy, that the agnostic peasant's son who commands the lion's share of the allegiance is quietly deplored by Pope and King. Last week that division in sentiment passed...
> As significant as the President's speech the comment made upon it by Walter Lippman, who, though a typical agnostic moralist, found himself obliged to declare that "to dissociate free institutions from religion and patriotism is to render unworkable and, in the last analysis, defenseless. . . . The final resistance to...
Died. Clarence Seward Darrow, 80, criminal lawyer, defender of underdogs, winner of lost causes; of heart disease; in Chicago. Agnostic, bitter opponent of capital punishment ("organized, legalized murder"), Darrow never prosecuted a case, never had a client executed. His great defenses: 1) Socialist Eugene Victor Debs, arrested (1894) on a...
Seriously, "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" is our nomination for the picture of the year; it gives new life to the cynic, new hope to the skeptic, new faith to the agnostic; to the weary it gives strength, to the fool wisdom, to the frenzied calm. In short, every...
Friendly toward the A. S. P. C. A. and the American Humane Association, although the friendship is not entirely reciprocated, are numerous national and local antivivisectionist societies which devote their energies to attacking scientists who use animals for experiments. To them antitoxins and serums produced by infecting animals with disease...