Word: englishman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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That a Christian cannot go to war and at the same time follow out the doctrines of his religion, was the message which the Reverend Leyton Richards, churchman, pacifist, and Englishman, brought to the audience in Peabody Hall last night, at a meeting held under the joint auspices of the St. Paul's Society and the Fellowship of Youth for Peace...
...another part of his speech, the Air Secretary referred to "the greatest air power, our old friend, France; and no sane Englishman or Frenchman now dreams of strained relations between the two countries." In another passage, he continued...
...derives from the signalman's method of transmitting "T" over the telephone, and is an abbreviation for Talbot House. Gilbert Talbot was a brilliant young Englishman, and at his death in the war a community house was founded to carry out the principles for which Talbot died. Chaplain Clayton was in charge of this movement, and after the war transferred it to England where he has worked ever since trying to establish the "Toc H" principle of practical Christianity. Having founded seventy "Toc H" centers in England, he is now making a trip around the world to explain the principles...
Before all three acts are over, there is probably more off and on stage clamor than is contained in any given dozen of theatres. Storms and shots and beaten drums fill in the open spaces when an Englishman's soul is not departing with appropriate agonies. James Rennie and Ruth Shepley draw salaries for interpreting these noisy doings. Probably the best performance is that of the witch doctor, Francis Corbie, a Negro actor...
...Young, the Englishman, then spoke, saying, "Business, the all-absorbing, has permeated the English atmosphere as it has the American, but the colleges have not been affected. They may yet be, but it will be by a process opposite to the American. Over here, trade, came before the colleges and grew up with them, particularly in the West. In England the colleges and trade have been mutually exclusive, and business must force its way in. The contest between American and English's colleges is shown by the familiar example of extra-curriculum interests. In America one "works to make" something...