Word: creed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...adoption of a "militant creed directed to a specific goal," as Germany has done, he found, would lead to he abandonment of "almost all of those basic concepts of the integrity of human life--liberty and individuality. To me there is no escape from the dilemma...
Methodist doctrines and ritual are flexible enough so that little controversy arose over their definition. But over a lengthy and liberal social creed submitted to the Conference, there was a sputter. Delegate Alfred Mossman Landon objected to the section which promised the support of the Methodist Church to conscientious objectors. Youngish Delegate Lloyd E. Foster of East Orange, N. J. shouted that only the "grey-haired and baldheaded" objected to the section. Red-faced, Delegate Landon shouted: "I submit that the argument is a cowardly one!" Nevertheless, the Conference voted down grey-haired Mr. Landon...
...spite of their amiable creed 458 female Nazareth Baptists went out, cornered Sampson, tied him with ropes, marched him to a tree-bordered square in Verulam called The Place of Dancing. Chanting and dancing, they hacked Sampson with sticks, hoes, axes, poles, stones. Then they buried what was left of him under a ton of debris...
...daughter, Helen Cadle Major, 26, office manager, his daughter, Virginia Ann, 16, director of young people's activities. Operating expenses of the Tabernacle and radio programs, which bring in 4,000 letters a week, come to $100,000 a year. The Church's motto is: "No creed but Christ, no law but love, no Book but the Bible." No donations are refused. The Cadle 1,485-voice choir is something to hear...
Such an exhibition as this can do nothing but confirm the idea that here at last is a national American art, appealing to all regardless of position, political views, race, or creed. As long as Disney keeps the same sane attitude towards his creation and as long as he refuses to let prejudice or affectation have a place in it, there is little that can displace it from its high position in American life...