Word: christianly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...idea of Immortality for the Thing is conditioned by the religious, ethical, and emotional arguments. The doctrine of the Trinity fits well the idea of modern pantheism, for in the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost the Christian mystic achieves union with God and at the same time overcomes his individuality, which limits and restricts man, in three ways. The moralist says that the man who works for fame and wealth lives only for time, but he who works for ideals of goodness and beauty lives for eternity. The heart, with the poet its soldier, claims that Love is the most...
...thing he refused to do, however: sleep in a blanketed bed. One night last fortnight he slept outdoors in a storm, three days later died of pneumonia. Paramount planned (but failed) to send a delegation of famed actors to watch Jiggs buried in his silk-lined coffin. A Christian Science funeral service was read at his grave...
...When his mistress and Herr Professor Max Müller of Munich one day discussed making dogs into sausages, Kurwenal exclaimed: "The Christian religion prohibits killing...
...prepare a scientific treatise on alcohol's effects. Two months ago Drs. Waddell & Haag submitted their report to the State Board of Education, which warmly endorsed the work, sent it to the General Assembly for approval as a textbook. In no time at all the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, the Anti-Saloon League and Virginia's churches had raced to Richmond to raise a clamor in the legislative halls...
...crankier. In France an Atlantean society split into two groups on theoretical questions about the make-up of the hypothetical continent, began disrupting each other's meetings with real tear-gas bombs. In Denmark enthusiasts founded a principality of Atlantis, issued coins and stamps and placed Prince Christian on their imaginary throne. In Germany another wrote a book to prove that Atlantis was the original home of the Aryans, that when it was destroyed only three Aryans escaped. "Then comes the unexpected denouement," says Author Bramwell. "It turns out that the whole point of the book is to show...