Word: creationism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...experienced. Time and dignity perhaps will not allow the full program outlined above, but still there is positive good to be derived from such expositions on a small scale. And even where this is not possible, many lectures could be greatly improved by laying greater stress on the creation of "atmosphere...
...courses on persistently in the elder heroes of the War. Hindenburg has majestically topped 80, Foch 77, and good "Papa" Joffre 76. Early, therefore, seemed the harvest which Death reaped, last week, in striking down at 66 perhaps the greatest soldier-Scotchman, Colonel - Douglas Haig, first Earl Haig (British creation), but 29th Laird of Bemerside (Scotch), and, from 1915 onward, Commander-in-Chief of all Britannia's armies in France, famed as "Field-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig." Men will remember and revere him for Scotch virtues. The core of his unalterable concept...
...lives away from the world in the forest at Montfort-l'Amaury, concerning himself with the creation of music: for grown-ups his orchestral valse, his mocking Tziganes, his naughty I'Heure Espagnole; for children, his lovely Mother Goose suite and l'Enfant et les Sortileges?a happier balance than his contemporaries have found. In the U. S. for three months, he will conduct the New York, Boston, San Francisco and Cleveland orchestras, will appear also in Los Angeles, Portland, Seattle, Vancouver, St. Paul, Minneapolis, Kansas City, Denver, St. Louis, Houston and Philadelphia...
...Manhattan branch of the Young Women's Christian Association. Said Preacher Royden, referring to the distinction between the moral codes for male and female: "We shall see worse things before better. ... In the end we shall evolve a stable and permanent relation between men and women for the creation of children. ..." Of cigarets, Miss Royden ambiguously remarked that if a woman found that she could not exist without them she had better cut them...
...Marguerita, no heroic stage devil preposterously horned and tailed, no paunchy, heroic Faust singing to the gallery. All that had been discarded. Instead, the curtain went up on one Faust, an aged dissatisfied philosopher with a voice a little pinched, and went down on another, a cavalier Faust, the creation of Mephistopheles' evil genius, a romantic with a voice fittingly curving and lush. Mephistopheles through it all was the Mr. Hyde to Faust's Dr. Jekyll. He was the embodiment of all the negative forces of life, cut by the same pattern as Faust, only his evil self...