Word: evils
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pennsylvania Germans, had at least one child virtuoso in William Henry Oberholtzer, who was in school in 1861. He drew his painstaking pictures of Julius Caesar, a stage coach, an Indian chief in his copy book (see cut) between exercises such as 300 lines of "Is intemperance a greater evil than slavery...
...fulsome to be called flattery; 3) an account of a heroic career as a lecturer that once carried the abbe through 39 lectures in less than 80 days; 4) a general picture of a benign, well-wishing, patriotic character who knows that in the war between good and evil, the thought of the "suffering endured at any minute by millions of men" is made bearable only by the thought of "the tremendous amount of kindness at work ... at that same minute...
Thus the young become old. They fail to achieve a balance between the good and bad, adopt an attitude through no fault of their own that is not only unnecessary, but destructive of life itself. Youth, if he reckons in the evil formulating his ideals, will be able to meet and conquer the disappointment of life, and preserve his idealism to the end. Santa Claus need never...
...forgive us! Create in us a clean heart and renew a right spirit within us. Help us, we beseech Thee, to bring forth fruits worthy of repentance that we may be redeemed from the joul clutches of this national evil, and may order all our ways in the fear and love of God. Amen...
...fortune by way of unpaid radio appearances in Los Angeles, a chance to fill in during an operatic emergency, a role in a cheap movie that turns into a hit. When he is on top of the world again, with Juana in a Gramercy Park hideaway in Manhattan, his evil genius appears-a suave, wealthy, possessive conductor and music patron named Hawes. Although Howard struggles in increasing panic, Juana guesses what is wrong, learns that Hawes had been obscurely responsible for his previous decline, tells him contemptuously that only men can sing. Treating bluntly a theme that was almost...