Word: denials
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Algernon Sidney Crapsey, 80, author (The Last of the Heretics, an autobiography), lecturer, onetime Episcopalian clergyman, convicted of heresy in 1906 for denial of the doctrine of the virgin birth and the divinity of Jesus; in Rochester...
...Agnosticism and Atheism are the denial of God", said Dr. Straton in his powerful, clear delivery, "and since America is founded on faith in God, they are anti-American. The Pilgrims drafted the charter of the new settlement with the Bible their only guide, and it was devotion to God Almighty that brought them to these shores and sustained them. America is unique in the history of the world in that it is founded on religion...
...until last week did anyone close to the late President Harding make any public statement about The President's Daughter. This statement was not a denial but a protest. Hearing that the book was having an everwidening sale, Dr. George T. Harding Jr. (the late President's brother), Mrs. Ralph Lewis and Mrs. H. H. Votaw (the late Presidents sisters), conferred with friends in Marion, Ohio. Letters from other friends had been pouring in urging action of some kind. Grant E. Mouser of Marion, a lifelong friend of President Harding and often host to Nan Britton, was the author...
...saddest commentary on these proceedings is that there can be little room for denial. Boston is, as Mr. Eaton remarks, "the laughing stock of the country because of its censorship of literature." That it should merit that distinction is rather surprising when its educational institutions are considered. Usually those portions of the country best equipped with colleges and universities are those betraying the most liberal tendencies. In the more provincial areas a certain prudishness about intellectual matters is expected. But in the Commonwealth, whose hoast is its great opportunities for higher education, the opposite is true...
...defeat their own ends by giving him a chance to hit back. A successful fight will not be directed against his governorship--he has done his gubernatorial duties too well. It must rather deal in obscure appeals to racial and religious prejudice; if it hopes to attract either vigorous denial or assent...