Word: christe
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ethical idea evolved by mankind and attempts to draw its moral standards from a study of human behavior. . . . Both sides must recognize a serious menace to vital Christian faith in the humanist movement. The urgent task for Christian scholars is to state the conception of God in Christ convincingly and to help build a Christian Church which will embody his spirit...
...this picture, unlike most of those based on successful books, will appeal chiefly to people who have read the story. The brightly colored insubstantial characters?the disordered old Marquesa, tormented with love for a daughter who does not like her; the novice (Raquel Torres) who could no longer see Christ clear because she loved Estaban, the letter writer; Estaban, who found the world empty when his brother Manuel died; Manuel, infatuated with La Perichole (Lily Damita); Uncle Pio (Ernest Torrence), dismissed at last by the girl he has made famous?come to life in an imaginary country filled with splendid...
...American Social Hygiene Association, presided. Dr. Robert Latou Dickinson of the New York Academy of Medicine, energetic in maternal health work, resolved that some permanent agency be formed to study and act on sex education, sex literature. The mass meeting approved unanimously, except for Canon William Sheafe Chase of Christ Church, Brooklyn. He, who had abetted the conviction of Mrs. Dennett, sat in the gallery silent, watchful, preparing to continue his denunciation in debate and lecture...
...Piedmont's ruddy Barolos. Sicilians promised 1,000 bottles of tawny Moscato. Tuscany pledged 1,000 of Chianti. Umbria planned a gift of pale Orvieto Secco, most delicate of Italian wines. On the slopes of Vesuvius, Neapolitans prepared 1,000 of Lacrima Christi, Tear of Christ, for Peter's Cellar...
...Trinity Church preferred to stay in Boston. Bishop Edward Makin Cross of Spokane, who was supposed to have relations in Philadelphia who would make that city attractive to him, preferred to stay in Spokane. Rector Russell Bowie of Grace Church, Manhattan, declined next, and then Dean William Scarlett of Christ Church Cathedral, St. Louis. The situation was beginning to suggest that Irish-born Bishop Thomas James Garland of Pennsylvania, a fibrous old gentleman of 62, was a man with whom other, younger men, were not eager to work. Bishop Garland parried this suggestion with a wry suggestion...