Word: creede
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...life, not flee from it ... establish the conditions of a satisfactory life for all, not merely for the few." Most Humanists come from Unitarian. Universalist, Baptist and Congregationalist churches. In recent years 60 Unitarian ministers have embraced Humanism. Their church was dismayed but could do nothing, its own creed being far from stringent. There are Humanist groups in Manhattan. Hollywood, Berkeley, Calif., Sioux City and Minneapolis. They hope soon to form a national organization. The Minneapolis group is under the guidance of a Humanist pioneer, Rev. John Hassler Dietrich who, nominally Unitarian, began preaching Humanism 18 years...
...love-affairs, her affairs as material for her best-selling books. Victoria is gross, cynical, shrewd; somehow her daughter turns out to be the opposite. She soon sees through her mother, takes her affection to Fanny. When the daughter marries a nice young man, Victoria's Bohemian creed is horrified and she tries to break it up. But youth wins out. Aging Victoria shrugs her shoulders, says: "It seems you are all I have left, Fanny." ¶Because Emily was a rich man's daughter, she might look kindly on young Clerk Evan but she had to marry...
...Bishop James Cannon Jr. objected to the phrase "and other qualified persons," declaring that only physicians should be allowed to give information and then only when directly consulted. In the end the first passage was stricken out, the second left in. Into the Federal Council's "social ideals creed" was inserted a resolution against gambling, and at Bishop Cannon's behest a pledge of support for the 18th Amendment. Another section read: "Divorce or separation may be and often is preferable to the enforced continuance of a relation which has no true basis in mutual respect. . ." The delegates...
...there is a golden book, the vade mecum of everything worth keeping by in life, it is the memories of men known. This is the Vagabond's creed. Today his spirit will haunt old McKinlock, and perhaps will gain, as William Butler Yeats himself was the gainer from those afternoons at the stable beside Kelmscott House...
...copywriters should pounce merrily on "humor . . . and the human element in situations and merchandise," he warns that they must not be funny more than 5% of the time. He admits: "I do not think there is anything funny about a Baldwin locomotive." Chief tenet of Adman Collins' advertising creed is honesty. He deplores the blasts of exaggeration which have undermined buyers' minds with skepticism. Now 34. he proposes to strike out for himself as Kenneth Collins, Inc. Graduated by the University of Washington in 1919, he declined a Rhodes scholarship, taught freshman composition at the University of Idaho...