Word: evils
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Philadelphia, Ohio, the New Philadelphia Ministerial Association denounced Sunday theatrical performances for Flood Fund benefit as "baneful sophistry of doing evil for the advancement of good...
...Irene Rich). A proud Duchess at the Spanish Court in Inquisitorial times, displeases the King and is shipped off to Porto Rico. There she tries to live up to her subtitled name of "she-devil" by delicately flogging her peons, riding like Tom Mix and crossing swords with an evil-visaged bandit. Despite Dukes, Duchesses, bandits and a lost daughter, there is scant hair-raising...
...Mark Twain to Bradley and Pirandello. The terrifying enigma of the sanity of the insane or the falseness of reality leaves us with a shaken faith even in the surcease of our own transitory mutability. Herbert Spencer said "Not only is there a soul of good 'in things evil', but a soul of truth 'in things erroneous'," and Mr. Muir has provided us with another starting point for speculative exercise in the good and evil, the true and the erroneous...
...party is therefore, not only commendable in itself, but equally praiseworthy as an example which might quite logically be followed by all Eastern colleges. A similar arrangement has been instituted with success in the "Big Ten" Association, and whereas the present system here has not resulted in a recognized evil, the lot of a big game referee, dependent on the approval of the rival coaches for his position, could not have been a very happy...
...modern evil of the dollar in connection with athletics was not felt in the early days of Greece, as is shown by Yenophanes' statement to the effect that "small rejoicing would there be in the city over a man's victory on the strands of the Pises, nor would such a victory make the city any richer...