Word: faith
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Coming out for the semi-finals of the Australian Singles last week, Donald Budge had thus far justified his compatriots' if not his hosts' faith in him. After two months of this & that, during which he had dropped four matches (two to Baron von Cramm and two to Australia's Jack Bromwich) and irritated Australian tennis fans by his lackadaisical performance, Champion Budge had demonstrated that, although he is no superhuman tennis machine, he is still the best amateur tennist in the world. At Adelaide he had reached the semi-finals without losing...
...Atlantic. Forty-four-year-old Sir Cedric Hardwicke (youngest actor ever knighted) plays the witty Canon Skerritt, who glories in the forms of Catholicism, finds comfort in its intellectual discipline as he sips his old Madeira, calls his parishioners boobs, but achieves a state of grace through the faith of his kitchen slavey...
...Poland with native players as passionately sincere as if their own souls were involved. The Dybbuk presents a painstaking picture of the weary search for eternal peace by a people for whom the earth holds little, affords an insight into the absurd involvements that are the accretions of simple faith...
Henceforth, all German girls between 18 and 21 must be members of a league whose name is "Work, Beauty & Faith," whose object is the beautification of women by such proper Aryan measures as physical culture and rhythmic dancing -not however by the use of lipsticks and other cosmetics which are vicious foreign importations...
...usual after a joint communion service, there was outcry last week which suggested that such services still impede rather than aid the ecumenical movement. The High -Church Episcopal Living Church, in a 3,000-word editorial, riddled intercommunion as being contrary to the Prayer Book, disturbing to the faith of the faithful, fostering the idea that the Church is "just another sect," denying the sacrificial quality of the celebration, tending toward sacrilege, admitting that human fellowship can be a substitute for "Divine Society." Said the Living Church: "We ask for . . . sympathetic understanding in our disagreement with those who would make...