Word: christe
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Americans, English and the savages, who are heathen. The Methodists, Baptists and other Protestant pastors are sore on the Bishop for that. They're hot after the Catholic Filipinos, and leave the heathen Igorots to Bishop Brent. He goes to their villages to talk to them about Christ, and stopping their headhunting. He's done quite a piece of work among them." My memory of Bishop Brent is on that hot, dusty mountain road, his hand upon the head of his lowly porter, as the General and I drank our stirrup cup. I was, as I said, reminded...
...here are no longer convulsive for their own sake. Nor does pleasant hokum like the sale of candy with a souvenir in each & every box, redeem the longer intervals of sluggish comedy. Henry Hull makes the actor-mayor only a conventional juvenile. The Passion Play, traditional drama of Christ's last days, has been given for more than six centuries on the hills of Freiburg, Germany.* Last week the Freiburg players appeared in Manhattan, presented by Morris Gest, directed by David Belasco. The locale was the gigantic Hippodrome, onetime scene of elephantine musical shows in which Annette Kellerman swam...
...Jerusalem is the holiest place in the world of Jewry: the Wailing Wall, sole remnant, it is said, of the silently-built temple of Solomon. Here, too, for Christians to worship, is the empty tomb of Christ, and for Mohammedan Arabs, the Coffin of Mohammed, studded with 17 gold nails...
...National Broadcasting Co. is rendering a public service when it permits young men and women to be told . . . that it is 'healthy' to smoke cigarets. It is impossible to believe that you, Dr. Macfarland [Dr. Charles Stedman Macfarland, General Secretary of the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America] and that you, Mr. Green [William Green, head of American Federation of Labor] representing millions of workers, can feel that broadcasting is reflecting either the interests of the church or the home when such harmful propaganda is sent through the air." Thus, half-incredulous, half-accusatory, the Open Letter...
...marry multitudinously. He needed a legitimate son for the sake of his pride, his dynasty, his country. By his halidom he would have a son if he had to marry and murder a half-dozen wives. Presented with the infant Elizabeth, later to be called great, he bellowed: "But Christ, this to me! To me! A daughter! I would prefer a son blind, deaf, crippled. . . . You make filth...