Word: donning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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DON'T BE DECEIVED!
"I am not going to be a party, if I can help it, to anyone being married by Church service who has been divorced. "I am not going to make the word of God a blasphemous farce [by condoning divorce]. No man has a right to ask a bishop to...
Married. Ernestine Altman, orphan niece of famed Manhattan Lawyer Max D. Steuer ("Belasco of the Bar"); and Leonard Golding, Manhattan broker; in New York City Hall, by Mayor James John Walker. It was the fourth time Mayor Walker had performed such a ceremony. He absented himself from a discussion of...
A gentle rustle of satisfaction animated the starched silks of the ladies of the Fifth Avenue (Manhattan) Baptist Church when the erect, square-shouldered law clerk strode down the aisle to take his seat. "There," they whispered to one another, "is the Good Young Man of our church." And later...
1914. Children with braces on their teeth; children with governesses on their arms, children with adenoids, children with doting aunts, harassed mothers, hearty uncles, self-conscious fathers. Children with questions on their lips: "Mother, don't the ladies dwown when they go down in the water, Mother?"