Word: christian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Francisco [Presbyterian] General Assembly. Many saw, for the first time, the superb location and great opportunity of Westminster, the only Christian College in five States." (The italics are TIME'S.) Denominational colleges, other than Latter Day Saints and Roman Catholic, in Utah and the five contiguous states are-Methodist: Gooding (Gooding, Idaho), University of Denver and Iliff School of Theology (Denver) ; Presbyterian: Idaho (Caldwell, Idaho), Westminster (Salt Lake City) ; Nazarene: Northwestern Nazarene (Nampa, Idaho) ; Congregational: Colorado (Colorado Springs, Colo.); Pillar of Fire: 'Westminster (Denver...
Meanwhile the Kaiser's second son, Prince Eitel Friedrich Christian Charles, a Major General, was Grand Master of the Order of St. John. He had taken to wife the Princess Charlotte of Oldenburg, petite and ravishing as her famed ancestress Queen Louise of Prussia.* Ostensibly this smart and dashing royal couple also lived in a state of virtue suitable to the household of a Grand Master of St. John. Actually their secrets were fashionably half concealed. They had no children, and, not dull, they encouraged a certain very zestful officer of the guards Baron Frieherr von Plettenburg-Mehrum, Plettenburg...
Willis John Abbot, editor, Christian Science Monitor, D. Humane Letters...
...eccentricities of the bad man are noteworthy. He worships weird, heathen deities while masquerading as a Caucasian Christian. He knows secret trap doors, cells, torture chambers, depraved henchmen. He keeps a dwarf brother locked up in a stifling cage. In short, he inspires the belief that if anything can be more astonishing than the cinema version of virtue, it is its conception of vice...
...American Crime Study Commission, an organization of which Bradford Merrill, general manager of the Hearst newspapers, is secretary. Addressing the Commission, Mr. Hearst said that the U. S. penal system is "built upon the sand, founded upon the basis of force and violence instead of on the basis of Christian care of our fellow...