Word: faith
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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AMERICAN FAMILY-Faith Baldwin- Farrar & Rinehart ($2). Well-meant but uninspired three-generation family novel...
...Germany is on her feet again. Miracles are done by faith and the Germans have found a new and potent faith which has given Germany a new soul. Germany is a new Sparta...
...everywhere. When he found her again she was a waitress in Kansas City and not glad to see him, but he wore down her resistance, married her. His great ambition was to have a fine American home. But experience, domestic and otherwise, gradually undermined George Brush's faith that he could get better and better until he was perfect. He lost his faith, his health, nearly died. But he was a strong young man. He recovered, and when last heard of was up to his old tricks again-an agnostic now, but as high-principled, experimentalizing as ever...
...historian, for example, who endeavours to re-write the Whig historians, whose anti-Catholic bias is one of the disgraces of modern historiography. Unlike Messrs. Belloc and Chesterton, Mr. Dawson is imbued with the modern ideal of impartiality, and even in his attempt to secure justice for the faith he never leans over backwards into unfairness to the unjust. He is most like Mr. Wyndham Lewis--minus that historian's Gallic irony--in that he is immensely learned, how learned anybody has some opportunity of gauging by reading his "Age of the Gods" or "The Making of Europe." He lectures...
...despoiled the monasteries. "Money, money maketh man," said old Pindar, and the lines which Langland gives to Lady Meed show that while he was "the Catholic Englishman par excellence, at once the most English of Catholic poets and the most Catholic of English poets: a man in whom Catholic faith and national feeling are fused in a single flame," he perceived a real threat to Christianity in the rapacity of his contemporaries...