Word: creeds
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...said John Davison Rockefeller, at the age of 60, when he was fingering the yellowed leaves of a precious document, his own Ledger A, which he had kept as a 16-year-old assistant bookkeeper in a Cleveland commission house. That all-inclusive creed, conceived in youth, ex- pressed at the philosopher's age, was the lone recorded feat of Mr. Rockefeller's imagination. Otherwise, he has exhibited no great creative imagination. But give even a street car conductor a mighty creed, give him an almost perfect mathematical determination to carry it out, and he will build tracks...
Divorced. Paul Poiret. dressmaker, of Paris; and his wife, Denise Louise Poiret, once his "inspiration," of whom he said "I make for my wife the gowns and hats that express my creed;" at Paris. M. Poiret charged that his wife's attitude was injurious; Mme. Poiret countercharged, that her husband was cruel...
...flung herself the more violently into a materialistic existence that was promiscuous, not to say debauched. McGreggor, sensual himself, imagined her life as accurately as it is possible for a Victorian to imagine looseness; but did not take it to heart until Ann expounded to him the explicit creed of her unmorality. Terrified by realization of his religious failure as exemplified in Ann, Hugh resigned his worldly parish and became pastor of "the barest and humblest of churches." Ann settled down, in time, to suburban matronliness; rearing her children as conventionally as her stuccoed neighbors reared theirs. And the conflict...
...leader of men. In this, his home town, in a room where he taught rhetoric and grammar, and where he inspired students as did Garfield at Hiram, Ohio, there was organized the Willis-for-President Club. Those present and forming the club were of every political complexion and religious creed. Its slogan is, "The Largest Willis-for-President Club in the State...
...Thousands of them may be Catholics, but the foundation of the Democratic Party was erected with sufficient strength to hold those of every creed, without bias or prejudice or favoritism of discrimination...