Word: atheist
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tribute. Leading the parade were President Doumergue. Prime Minister André Tardieu. Foreign Minister Briand, Marshal Pétain, and one-armed General Gouraud. Just at eleven o'clock a cannon boomed, while all the crowd stood for a motionless minute. There were neither speeches nor prayers for Atheist Georges Clémenceau...
Catholic v. Atheist. Ferdinand Foch and Georges Clemenceau: Devout Catholic and fiery Atheist. They had to clash. They could win the War without coming to an actual break, but not the Peace. Which was right? Foch will always get his due as Conqueror. Hear Clemenceau: "We disagreed entirely on the question of the Franco-German frontier. The Marshal wanted me to annex the Rhineland, and wrote me so. I did not want to have a new Alsace-Lorraine that would send protesting deputies to the French Chamber, as Alsatian deputies were sent to the Reichstag after 1871. So Woodrow Wilson...
...trained nurse, white-coifed Sister Theoneste. Ten years ago during the Peace Conference, Clémenceau was shot-wounded by a young anarchist named Cottin.* It was Sister Theoneste who nursed him back to health. Last week when his battle for life was hardest, Clémenceau, the confirmed atheist, had called for Sister Theoneste again. She it was who despite his grumbling protests gave him hypodermic injections of camphorated oil to relieve the congestion in his chest, prepared his frugal diet (vegetable soup, mashed potatoes, stewed fruit) and tried ineffectually to keep him from writing...
...Kvale faced Mr. Volstead in the Republican primaries and won, but in so doing he called Mr. Volstead an Atheist. Mr. Volstead went to court. His daughter Laura testified that he was "a good Christian man, a good father," and the judge ordered Mr. Kvale removed from the Republican ticket. He ran as an independent and lost to Volstead by only 1,200 votes in the Harding landslide. Two years later Kvale as a Farmer-Laborite opposed Volstead again. In that campaign Mr. Volstead was known as a disinterested Dry, Mr. Kvale as a red-hot Dry. Kvale...
...Congress, up reared the portentous bulk of Gilbert Keith Chesterton. England's three greatest publicists are the Messrs. Shaw, Chesterton and Herbert George Wells. Instead of replying to the Shavian sex sarcasm of the day before, Mr. Chesterton elected to assail Mr. Wells, evolutionist. He began by talking about atheists, of whom, he said, the world has very few. "An atheist," he boomed, "is much more difficult to emancipate than any one else because he is, above all people, the narrowest and most completely captive." But Mr. Wells is not even an atheist, explained Mr. Chesterton. He is merely antiChristian...