Word: amens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...brief space, inhabited our sphere of life. This man's premature demise was brought on himself by his constant refusal to hear his master's voice. . . . Let us all take a damn fine drink now as we lower John to his final resting place in oblivion. Amen...
...Army Game, TIME, July 19, CINEMA), youthful veteran of George White's Scandals, Ziegfeld Follies, Louis the Fourteenth; to Edward Sutherland, cinema director, in Man- hattan. Married. Mrs. Marion Cleveland Dell, daughter of President Grover Cleveland and the now Mrs. Thomas J. Preston Jr. to John Harlan Amen, Manhattan lawyer, son of the late Principal of Phillips Exeter Academy; at Tamworth, N. H. Divorced. Fawn Gray, famed a year ago as the night club dancing girl who so alluringly interested senile Harry K. Thaw for many an evening; from one Theodore MacFarland, her groom after a two-day party...
Thus, to Fundamentalists: "These Evolutionists are monkey-faced Baptists and they are worse than an archists or the Ku Klux Klan." (Antiphony: "Amen, Brother...
From the tomb of Tut-ank-Amen and countless other mines of Egyptian treasure there come almost daily, priceless additions to the collections of the pitifullv inadequate and overcrowded museum at Cairo. For three months the Egyptian Cabinet has been trying to decide whether to accept $10,000,000 from John D. Rockefeller Jr. wherewith to build and endow forever a museum adequate beyond all dreams, a beautiful and safe repository, equipped to preserve these treasures by every means known to science (TIME, March 1, et ante...
...which let us chant an antiphonal amen. And continue. For continue we must, now that Dreiser has given us the big rhythm. But perhaps we are hitting our man too many times on the same blood-clot. Nevertheless we remember that there have been in years a gone double-decker novels whose power increased with their size. Knut Hamsun's Growth of the Soil" was such a one; it captured a dinky little Nobel Prize or something of the sort. Then there was Fielding's "Tom Jones"--pretty good for an old-timer, what...