Word: christian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Among these Founders whom Professor Rand has chosen as most significant for later developments are St. Ambrose, the Mystic; St. Jerome, the Humanist; Boethius, the first of the Scholastics; and St. Augustine as a precursor, in some respects, of Dante. He also treats of the New Poetry of Latin Christianity and the New Education in relation to both the past and the future including our own times. The fundamental consideration is the attitude of the Church to Pagan culture, which it did not reject but combined with its own teaching in a new, Christian humanism...
...Devout Christian policemen locked up protesting Mahout Wee as a murderer...
Ludwig Lewisohn, Jewish author who has suffered from Christian ostracism, recommends in his new book, Midchannel, that states invest rabbis with full legal powers in affairs affecting Jews, especially concerning marriage and divorce. Several European countries have such autonomous courts. Manhattan has an extra-legal one whose chief function has become the smoothing of disputes between Jewish manufacturers and tradesmen...
...gone out of his way to announce himself as the implacable foe of things that we count most dear. . . . Let there be no wavering. Let us march steadily forward to victory. 'In the name of our God, we will set up our banners.' Let us baptize afresh our Christian Endeavor motto, 'For Christ and Our Church...
Leopold of Austria was puny of intellect, body, honor. His petty vindictiveness he turned on the one man who was indispensable to his political position-Christian of Kurland, mercenary soldier, master of the art of war, gentleman of fabulous wealth and sophisticated Versailles breeding. Christian's estate glittered with exotic tropic birds and costly tapestries; his person with jewels, velvet, and fine lace fichus. His soldiers adored him, all Europe feared him. Yet Christian was branded with the bar sinister; the only title he could really claim was, affectionate or derisive, "General Crack." Aside from legitimacy there was only...