Word: christian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Engagement Broken. By Princess, Irene of Greece, second-youngest daughter of the late King Constantine; with Prince Christian Schaumburg-Lippe, nephew of Denmark's King Christian...
Lewisohn has found "all knowledge and worldly wisdom"; embodied in Hebraism, "righteousness, humanity, and peace.'' These are the permanent values he has resolved to serve, believing that a synthesis of Hellenism and Hebraism is the hope of the world. Christianity has no place-Pauline Christianity which Mr. Lewisohn identifies with the divorce laws of New York and therefore with the root of his troubles. "My country and its Christian laws have no regard for love or virtue or the creative mind but give their support to legalized malignity and moral foulness if only these mouth the moral saws...
...Brent!" But the khaki-clothed Bishop would not stop to eat. He had lunched with an Igorot in his mountain hut. He pushed on with a pleasant word to his furry companion who bore his canonicals and pajamas. "The Bishop," explained the General, "doesn't work among the Christian Filipinos. He says the Catholic God is the same as our Episcopalian God. He confines his efforts to 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...
...fabulous city of world's fairs, gang-wars, tallest buildings, youngest university presidents, blatant mayors, model department stores, bursting progress. Having made a mark on both edges of the continent he now returns to the middle, where he was born 52 years ago. Chicagoans will find him cheerful (Christian Science), fond of checked suits...
...Freiburg Passion Play (see p. 18). Editorialized the irate American Hebrew: "MORRIS GEST PLAYS JUDAS AT THE HIPPODROME. . . . Despite protests by Jews and non-Jews . . . Morris Gest carried through his program . . . the story of the Crucifixion which has caused more Jewish agony, persecution and oppression. . . . Were we a devout Christian [and had we seen the Gest production] we could never again look upon a Jew with kindliness and respect; the commandment. 'Love thy neighbor,' would definitely exclude Jews. . . . When two Jews [Morris Gest, David Belasco] indulge in such an obvious commercialization of the Gospel story . . . we must characterize the producers...