Word: aping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Aileron, Maggoty. In the finals, Sonya spelled baccalaureate, saleratus and aileron correctly, drew a smile by asking whether the pronouncer meant an "ape or an underground worker" when he asked for guerrilla. Finally, she put two t's in maggoty, and was spelled down. When Mattie Lou got it right, and zipped off chlorophyll to clinch the championship, tears came to Sonya's eyes. Schoolmarm Phillips told her: "Sugar, don't you shed a tear, because you did so sweet." Champion Mattie Lou was crying a little, too. Said she to Sonya: "I wish...
...Ape-men are gong out of vogue, the replies revealed, as 90 percent of the girls chose the "masculine" over the "gruffly masculine," with three votes cast for "effeminate" and none for "extremely effeminate." Over half the subjects felt more at home with "experienced men, though "modest" ran a close second, leaving the way open for all but the "eynical" and "naive...
...decry as "the ape of God" all those who do not hew to the party.line is ecclesiastical dictatorship at its apogee...
...vital'; he will invoke religion to destroy religion; he will even speak of Christ and say that he was the greatest man who ever lived; his mission, he will say, will be to liberate men from the servitudes of superstition and Fascism, which he will never define." The Ape of God. "In the midst of all his seeming love for humanity and his glib talk of freedom and equality, he will have one great secret which he will tell to no one: he will not believe in God. Be cause his religion will be brotherhood without the fatherhood...
...will set up a counter-church which will be the ape of the Church because he, the devil, is the ape of God. It will have all the notes and characteristics of the Church, but in reverse and emptied of its divine content. ... In desperate need for God, he will induce modern man in his loneliness and frustration to hunger more and more for membership in a community that will give man enlargement of pur pose, without any need of personal amend ment and without admission of personal guilt...