Word: conducting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Said he: "Priests conduct weddings; they get money for it. Priests conduct funerals; they get money for it. They conduct various other sorts of services and they get money for them. Consequently the State must know who these priests are. It must register them. We must know who are the responsible heads of their churches. We are not asking anything outrageous-merely obeyance...
...Chang's ally (nominally his subordinate) Yen Hsi-shan, the so-called "Model Governor" of Shansi Province. By Yen's orders certain of Chang Tso-lin's troops who had been preserving order in the city ad interim were allowed to depart with a Nationalist safe conduct, after their leader, General Pao Yulin, had partaken of a farewell ceremonious cup of tea. The Peking Diplomatic Corps informed the Nationalists, at this point, in the name of the Great Powers, that General Pao and his men, by preserving order through a difficult crisis, had deserved well...
Soon General Pao reported to the indignant but helpless Diplomatic Corps at Peking that Feng's troops had refused Pao's men passage through their lines, thus having repudiated the safe conduct of "Model Governor...
...Gherardo, the poor Parman is a religious rebel who gives all his money to the poor and dares combat with the Church of Rome. He is not, however, entirely a saint. His lusts lead him to betray a sympathetic virgin who later returns to help him conduct his holy reforms. Gherardo, veering like a mediaeval Elmer Gantry between his passion for this girl and his passion for reform, is led at last to betray his followers in an effort to secure her release from jail. In this effort he fails. He watches her being strangled and is then carried...
President Lowell offers as his suggestion for the preservation of the "undimmed moral sight" something of the sort, saying "we can judge our own conduct and motives as we would those of another." The advantages of acting in accordance with this standard, of holding steadfastly to the judgment of the conscience he sums up in the sentence, "just an exact analysis of self-deception, exact attempt in excuse conduct less than the best tends in so far to dull the vision so every action that is done because a clear light shows that it is the right thing...