Word: christianly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Boris Steiger, for 14 years the Soviet Foreign Commissariat's chief contact man with Moscow diplomats, a personal friend and frequent guest of the first U. S. Ambassador to the U.S.S.R., William Christian Bullitt, now Ambassador to France...
Impeccably groomed journalists on the platform of Liverpool Street Station were mistaken for a reception committee of impeccably groomed British statesmen last week by arriving King Christian X of Denmark. After shaking hands with them, His Majesty noticed their notebooks and pencils, remarked easily, "I see you are writers. I'll give you no trouble and will be a good...
...football season, Owner Marshall, fed up with perpetual deficits in Boston, moved his franchise and his team to Washington where he could give it his personal attention. His only major change in personnel was the addition of dark, drawling Sam Baugh, No. 1 footballer at Texas Christian University last year. With the showmanship which has put Mr. Marshall's glittering laundry depots all over town, he organized a 55-piece band which he dressed like Indians. He bustled around to his influential friends in Washington and persuaded them to attend games. Vice President Garner became a constant patron...
...proved his identity. Out in the street again, the abbe shook his head, laughed nervously, reminded himself that he was a man of letters of some standing, and walked to the Colony Club, where he was to appeal to a luncheon group of 20 ladies, "all Catholic and all Christian." But because he had an English accent and Irish sympathies were strong, he was suspected of being a British agent. Day after day Abbe Dimnet failed to get an audience with the Cardinal, although Monsignor Dineen became slowly "a little less rude, or a little more tired of being rude...
...work at once the oldest and the newest of books is the Hebrew Old Testament. Really the chronicle of the Jewish tribes from earliest recorded times right down to the Christian era, a chronicle which took those people through some of the most amazing adventures that you can read about in any literature, a chronicle occasionally incomplete--full of blind spots, times when the race seemed to be swallowed up like Jonah from the face of the earth--nevertheless this chronicle, this story, has had as much to do with shaping the course of world affairs for the last nineteen...