Word: credo
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Nathan, on the other hand, is a man of 45 with a young, sad face, the face of an esthete. His attention has generally been focused on the theatre which he now reviews and ridicules in the pages of three separate publications. He has also published The American Credo, a sort of joke book full of the nonsensical notions which U. S. citizens supposedly accept as fact. Some of these notions are merrily apposite; most are mere fictions invented by Author Nathan who sometimes (as above) seems capable of falling into his own babbit-snares. Most of his other numerous...
...flock the archbishop gave instructions how to perform self-marriage without benefit of priest: "Prepare in your house an altar. Place upon it some image of your devotion. Upon your bended knees make the sign of the cross and recite the Lord's Prayer, Ave Maria and the Credo. Pray to the Lord Jesus Christ and give thanks to God. Then standing before the altar the bridegroom will say 'I - before God and witnesses declare I wish to receive for my wife Señ0rita -as the Holy Roman Catholic Church prescribes.'" The girl says the equivalent...
...United States,* with all sympathy for other people in their struggles toward realization of an ideal of freedom, I declare that I believe the Republic of the United States of America is the best form of government on the earth today." There were some dissidents to this credo among his fellows in the A. F. of L., but he held them all tightly in the press of his will, as a cigarmaker squeezes hand-made cigars between the grooved boards on his bench. Then he added: "But it is still not good enough for us nor good enough for those...
...Chase reflected upon these problems or is he aware of then existence? Hardly. He still thinks that "Hatrack" has a special appeal to man's lower passions. And I am sure that the listeners who laughed up their sleeve while he read his "Credo" of "New Paritanism" had a pity for the man and his ignorance, especially when he was staggering to answer, why, to his mind, the Macfadden publications were not as harmful as is the American Mercury. Why that man and those who are backing him are simply one hundred and fifty years behind their time. A. Phillipoff...
...will do a textbook of the art and science of politics under democracy--that is, of practical politics, of the polities of job getting and boob bumbing? Surely there is a long felt want there." This is Mr. Mencken's latest dictum. Once again the modern Machiavell speaks the credo he has long assumed. Not a treatise which will lift the ethics of the profession of politics into the realm of the ideal, which will make of the gentlemen at Washington the "Guardians" of the state, but a textbook of bunkum and blither, a composite of the formulae...