Word: evils
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thus, last week, progressed what theorists and newspapers described with morbid jubilance as "the student suicide wave." The total self-destructions since New Year's readied 21. Dire views continued to be expressed on the evil influence of new philosophies, new psychology, and of high-pressure school requirements. At the University of Baltimore, 13 undergraduates were inspired to form an Anti-Suicide Club, with the powerful motto: "Live and let live". . . . President Raymond Allen Pearson of the University of Maryland submitted: "Abnormal living is causing this chain of student suicides . . . imitation of what they see in their elders". . . . Amelita Galli...
...last the Sultan [Abd-el-Krim], gave me another wife, a mule and a house. . . . One of my wives, called Fat'ma, as half of all Arab women are, has a son, whom I have called Mohammed. . . . My son, I hope, . . . will never learn the evil ways of what you call civilization. . . . The only world fit for a man to live in is the Mohammedan world...
...Toledo, William Gibbs McAdoo ("I had almost forgotten his name," shouted Senator Bruce on the floor of the Senate) addressed a meeting of lawyers. He flayed the enemies of Prohibition. He flayed the evil existing, socially and politically, in large centres of population. Next day the time of the Senate was consumed with Democratic jabberdash and poly-wrangle. Pro-Smith Wets raged at McAdoo "bigotry," Anti-Smith Drys lauded the services of Mr. McAdoo as Secretary of the Treasury (1913-18) but regretted that he had felt called upon to re-enter the Presidential lists in the Toledo manner...
...time and reflecting the varying "excellences and limitations of its author"; said of the Gospel: "It is not a narcotic to superinduce numbness or oblivion to the wrongs of this life. It is a trumpet blast echoing along the horizons of the world, challenging to combat every evil, every sin, every wrong." This man was a worthy successor to Henry Ward Beecher (incumbent 1847-87), Lyman Abbott (incumbent 1888-99) and Newell Dwight Hillis (incumbent 1899-1924)* as pastor of Plymouth Church, decided the fifteen quizzing ministers. Forthwith, they installed him-Plymouth's fourth pastor since its establishment...
...WITCHCRAFT AND DEMONOLOGY?Montague Summers?Knopf ($5). Witches and sorcerers were the starved souls and anarchists of their heyday?from the 12th Century to the 18th. They existed, feared by King and peasant, fought by Pope and priest?at first in furtive bands, then in leagues more potent for evil than the once dread Maffia. What were they? With a definition the author rips off the cloak of Devildom and leaves his subject naked as a pair of tongs: "A sorcerer (or witch) is one who by commerce with the Devil has a full intention of attaining his own ends...