Word: earth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...detail upon life after death. Lacking evidence, a minister's conception of Heaven is not much more valid than was that of Mark Twain, who in Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven pictured it as a place where people do what they always wanted to do on earth; where, on sheer worth, a backwoods poet from Tennessee takes precedence over Shakespeare...
...between God and man. . . . We ask that liberty may be given our people to go their way in the future under the sign of the Cross of Christ, in order that our grandsons may not curse their elders on the ground that their elders left them a state on earth that closed to them the Kingdom...
...tightest little monopolies in the U. S. is Ringling Brothers Barnum & Bailey Combined Shows, Inc. It has even been sued, by Zack Miller's 101 Ranch when THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH grabbed off Tom Mix, for conspiracy in restraint of trade. Last week the Circus was again involved with the law, not for conspiracy in restraint of trade, but for conspiracy "against the peace and dignity of the U. S." in the form of income tax frauds. What was more, the U. S. charged, the frauds had been carried out with a showmanship which would have done credit...
Lonely, fearing he was the only one of his kind on earth, John went off to the Scottish Highlands to think things over. There he learned to live like a savage, learned also how to add a cubit to his spiritual stature. When he came back to civilization he was able to communicate telepathically with other superior human beings like himself. Most of the older ones were in insane asylums. But gradually John collected a motley little band of superior children, took them off to an uncharted Pacific island to found a real civilization. Before they could do much...
...death last September. Last week, as the pawnbroker wrote to Skull & Bones in New Haven which immediately bought Coy's relics, newshawks hustled around to see Lottie Bruhn Coy, found her working as a servant. Said she: ''Yes, I'm Mrs. Ted Coy. How on earth did you find me here? . . . I haven't any money. . . . Once I went five days in this town without a bite to eat. . . . I thank God for a sense of humor. If I didn't have it I'd have been bad off these months since...