Word: contente
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Such authority as the Church has in civil matters is given to it by the law of the land, and the Church and every church is subservient to and in no sense dominates the law. . . . Any church may bless or curse a marriage to its ecclesiastical heart's content but it does not in any way affect the validity of the marriage...
...Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, ruefully stroking his beard, last week told the press that the biggest obstacle to his security program is the willingness of Latter-day Saints to be seduced by Government checks. The No. 1 Mormon admitted that he now has to be content with urging his charges who take WPA jobs to give an honest day's work. Sighed President Grant: "I have watched men at work on these Government jobs. I have counted slowly to four between their shovelfuls. In some cases I have counted to as high...
...which a poor Jew proclaimed his love for Germany, another in which a rich Jew refrained from cheating three young gentiles, a scene in which famed books, including Remarque's, were burned by Nazis. Hays office censorship left none of these scenes in the finished picture. Much political content is removed by a camera shot of a blowing newspaper dated October 1920, still more by removal of all definite party labels. What is left is a love story, beautifully told and consummately acted, but so drenched in hopelessness and heavy with the aroma of death, of wasted youth...
...projects for new "Salzburgs" outside Greater Germany. While most of these projects have been evaporating in talk, certain features of the Salzburg idea have quietly come into being at Glyndebourne, an old Tudor manor in the midst of England's hilly South Downs, 60 miles from London. Glyndebourne, content to remain in character, has not proclaimed itself the "Salzburg of England." But responsible critics have acclaimed the Mozart opera performances given there each year as the finest in the world today...
There are many kinds of school spirit. Some people wear huge W's on their watch fobs" some go to all the football games, and even contribute a fullback or two; many more content themselves with getting drunk when the occasion demands. Mr. Pereles did none of these things...