Word: authorities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Countless speakers from countless pulpits have made a platitude of the statement that the man who has had the greatest influence over the lives of Western peoples has been neigther emperor nov statesman, author or scientist, but an humble carpenter from Galilee. The story of the development of the institution founded by Christ is a vital one to students of philosophy, literature, politics and art, for all of them bear to some extent the impress of the power it has wielded over the mind of man for the past nineteen centuries. For that reason the lecture to be given...
...name of the author of this letter, who is himself a member of the Phi Beta Kappa Society, is withheld by request...
Once an architect, the author has worked on the piece intermittently, since 1916. Two chairs in the play once belonged to Robert Louis Stevenson, who was the husband of Mr. Strong's grandmother...
...Before any writer can portray Rummy Mitchens, a Salvation Army derelict, portrayed on the stage by Alice Cooper Cliffe, or Bill Walker (Percy Waram), he must have eaten humble cake in the mission houses of his trade. And before any writer can despise any human being as thoroughly as Author Shaw despises the son of his mouthpiece millionaire, it is necessary for the writer to have investigated him with the inquisitive sympathy of an artist, rather than the brief, scornful scrutiny of one who needs only a dunce and a trumpet...
...Author. At a conference of press correspondents in Albany the late Robert Fuller was so conspicuous for his intelligent questions that Charles Evans Hughes marked him, later appointed him his gubernatorial secretary and right hand man. A graduate of Harvard (1888), 18 years a newspaperman-reporter, editor, political pundit-he spent the last 20 years of his life in public service, representing Mr. Hughes's "ideal of the faithful, intelligent public servant, the sort that makes democracy worth while...