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No doubt a flood of letters protesting your selection will come to you, sent by D.A.R.'s, fearful divines, sabled, twittering, triple-chinned dowagers, the ostrich-minded city council of Cambridge, Mass., and similar groups of in-the-closet-and-under-the-bed-peepers who believe that enforced ignorance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 22, 1940 | 1/22/1940 | See Source »

As soon as he had a chance, George Augustus' bored father, George I, fled from England to his beloved Hanover for a long vacation. Prince George Augustus and lively Caroline proceeded to ingratiate themselves with the English at cheerful Hampton Court, surrounded by learned English divines and delightful English...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Quennell's Queen | 1/15/1940 | See Source »

Religious Humanism-not to be confused with the philosophic "New" or "Literary" Humanism championed by Walter Lippmann, Irving Babbitt and Paul Elmer More some years ago-is considerably older than the First Humanist Society. In Minneapolis, Rev. John Hassler Dietrich, nominally Unitarian, has preached this non-supernatural faith for nearly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Humanism's Tenth | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

Last week, scions of families known the world over, had an opportunity to preen their feathers at Newport Art Association's Gushing Memorial Gallery. There, an eminently back-scratching collection of family portraits, paintings, historic prints and photographs was gathered to celebrate the town's 300th birthday. The...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Roll Call in Newport | 8/14/1939 | See Source »

Last week, Dr. Georgia Harkness, one of the ablest of U. S. female divines, let off a little steam on the subject, as she does periodically.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Last Stronghold | 8/15/1938 | See Source »

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