Word: christian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...arts, declined to accept either one of two portraits painted for that purpose by E. Hodgson Smart, a distinguished English artist. One of these portraits, described by Gertrude Richardson Brigham in Art and Archeology as "one of the few great portraits of a president," and considered by George B. Christian, the late President's friend and secretary, as the best painted likeness of Mr. Harding has been purchased by the present owners of the Marion Star and is now hanging in the office of that newspaper at Marion, Ohio. . . . The other Smart portrait of Mr. Harding...
...President Hoover made public no answer to a wistful "open letter" on his religion, published by Editor Charles Clayton Morrison in the Christian Century. Said the letter, in part: "In choosing you, the people of the United States rejected the candidacy of a Catholic. . . . Some day ... the mind of Christ will become the mind of the State...
Last week tough old Atheist Clemenceau, 87, followed Death to the house of Christian Foch, 77, and condoled privily with Mme. la Marechale. Stumping forth with sturdy cane, he said: "It is unjust. He was my junior and it is I who come to salute him who is dead. He is entitled to the profoundest respect...
Newspaper cartoonists for a decade have clothed the college undergraduate in raccoon-skin coat, baggy trousers, battered and blighted felt hat. Such were the sacerdotal vestments of the initiate "collegian." But last week, Princeton's witty and learned Dean Christian Gauss hailed the passing of the coonskin. Said he: "Undergraduates who wear coonskin coats now are not nearly so jaunty about it as they used to be; they are quite properly a little shamefaced. Their Eskimoish enduements are relics of the past age of 'collegiatism.' Students now wear them for lack of polo coats or Chesterfields...
...Timorous Christians had best not probe too deeply into Christian ritual. The flames of Christian candles may blend weirdly with druid fires. Behind a pure-throated Christian anthem may pipe the skirling music of an impish Pan. Mithras, the Persian sun god and onetime idol of the Roman army, was born on Dec. 25. The Easter egg was symbolic before the Christian Easter, symbolic of fertility...