Word: evils
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...clubbed in a police attack upon a socialist meeting, overworked in the asparagus and hopfields of California and once was forced to act as an interpreter between Salvation Army workers and a group of Mohammedan laborers who " told filthy stories in Pushtu " (which sounds singularly evil). His one and only lucrative job evaporated when he discovered that, quite without his knowledge, he was being used by a group of fake-spiritualists to add, by his turbaned presence, proper mystic color to their meetings. Altogether, he saw Amerca as few foreign visitors see it-and in the " Epilogue," where he treats...
...Wrong Test. Sweepstakes in horse racing, football and other sports have become so huge an interest in Great Britain that the Government has considered taxing all bets, and the Church of England's Men's Society, meeting in London, considered what might be done to stop the gambling evil. One cleric told the Society that some men in his parish bet on whether the vicar would preach on a text from the Old or the New Testament. No one thought of betting on the dark horse. They found the vicar preaching on the text Revision of the Prayer Book...
...CITY OF LILKES-Anthony Pryde and R. K. Weekes-McBride ($2.00). The principality of Neuberg is just two blocks to the right from Ruritania and around the corner from Graustark. There Heinrich, the inordinately evil and charming Prince, passed his time between sending people he disliked to the guillotine, making epigrams and breaking women's hearts, while Valentin, who had all of George Washington's attributes except his false teeth, clad in a black domino, plotted revolution in a cellar. And St. Luc, the English Prime Minister, was nobly but quite platonically in love with the Princess...
ZANDER THE GREAT?Showing that bootleggers will be bootleggers in Arizona as in Harlem?and a little tot can reform any evil character in the American drama, especially when assisted by some gorgeous acting on the part of Alice Brady. Hokum...
Observe also, for the same reason, that he is not contrasting good acts with evil ones. It is not the comparison of the sheep and the goats; of the good man whose works will follow him, and the bad man who will be weighed down by them. He is discriminating among different works all well intentioned; among those which he compares to gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay and stubble, although all done from moral motives; in other words between good works of high, of moderate or of trifling value, and he rates them according to their enduring quality when...