Word: christianly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...interfering with the sale of Social Justice in the subway; heckled a Jew who charged, at a legislative hearing in Boston, that Father Coughlin uses Nazi propaganda material. Militant Coughlinites wear three kinds of buttons: one showing their leader's picture, the others the cross of the "Christian Front." The latter organization was founded by the Paulist Fathers, who disowned it when it became anti-Semitic...
...wise grass widow (until her 1938 divorce, Mrs. Scheider), Miss Thompson declares that never has she known Mrs. Roosevelt to do or say anything insincere. She thinks her ability to do and say so much results from Eleanor Roosevelt's being what is really meant by the word Christian...
...Cushing's well-known students and protègés: Dr. Walter Edward Dandy of Johns Hopkins; Dr. Gilbert Horrax of Boston; Dr. Leo Max Davidoff of Brooklyn; Dr. Eliott Carr Cutler, of Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, Boston; Dr. William John German of New Haven; Dr. Howard Christian Naffziger of the University of California...
...unbecoming manner in the street." Shortly thereafter the Generalissimo founded a New Life Movement to puritanize and clean up the Chinese, to fight superstition, ignorance and corruption, even to curb such Chinese habits as spitting in public. Chiang turned over the actual running of this movement, obviously Christian in its origin, to his Christian wife. Since then Mme Chiang has been advised, in the New Life Movement and in other matters, by a Congregational missionary, Rev. George W. Shepherd of Auburndale, Mass...
...impious gaiety of Rossini's comic operas (Ceneventola, The Barber of Seville). Rossini, one of the laziest and wittiest of all composers, wrote his Solemn Mass in 1863 at the age of 71, called it his "last mortal sin," marked one passage Allegro Cristiano (quick but Christian), confessed he did not know whether it was "musique sacrée ou sacrée musique" (sacred or accursed music), made one tenor solo, Domine Deus, sound like a swashbuckler's serenade, and directed that the composition should be sung by "three sexes-men, women and eunuchs." The Westminster Choir...