Word: belief
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...entertainment to alleviate the tediousness of meetings, nor alone for the goodwill that Singer Jolson will bring to aid them in selling his records, but mainly for the knowledge of the amusement line and the shrewd sense of business that Singer Jolson has shown. For contrary to the belief that all actors end in an Actors' Home, he has prospered financially and his operations in Warner Bros. (Vitaphone) stock alone are said to have made him a fortune...
...unobtrusively does Professor Robert Hutchings Goddard of Clark University, Worcester, Mass., work on his study of the air's upper miles by means of rockets that to many a Clark student he is only a tradition. They call him the moon man, in the inaccurate belief that he is trying to reach the moon with his missiles. Last week, Tradition Goddard detonated very loudly. From a 40-ft. steel tower he fired his latest rocket, a huge steel cylinder 9 ft. long by 2½ ft. diameter. A new propellant sent it whizzing from the ground. It rose straight...
...port, that her baggage might be passed and delivered at once. The Customs men demurred. She pointed to the imposing official seals that marked each of her seven wardrobe trunks and four suitcases, claimed diplomatic immunity. The Customs men communicated with the State Department, which verified their belief that diplomatic immunity is granted only to ambassadors or ministers and their wives, not to vice-consular ladies. Promptly the agents broke the seals, opened the trunks, lifted out laces, silks, and many a small tin box. The tin boxes contained a substance which the Customs men instantly recognized as opium?about...
...inevitably met. One of these is the Rt. Rev. Ernest William Barnes, "liberal" Bishop of Birmingham, the other is the Rt. Rev. Michael Bolton Furse, Bishop of St. Albans, stormy conservative. Said Bishop Furse when he saw Bishop Barnes: ". . . He claims liberty for himself and others in freedom of belief and refuses to allow that freedom of belief to be expressed in certain ways by us who, he says, made concessions to religious barbarisms." Interjected the Most Rev. Cosmo Gordon Lang, Archbishop of Canterbury: 'The Bishop of Birmingham so frequently uses language which is of the vehement kind that...
...Adolph Lewisohn's firm belief that good music not only pleases summer enthusiasts, but reduces crime. A reformer of prisons, he collects rare Bibles, impressionistic paintings. He likes to play cards, to win, to sing, to dance...