Word: faithful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...clock at 3 Joy Street,--just west of the State House, the Speaker, John Langdon-Davies, has been a scholar in history at Oxford, and Labor party candidate for parliament. He has given much time to worker's education. He has just published "The New Age of Faith",--a study of the question, Can science save society...
...walked to another throne, where he placed the crown of Siam upon his head and invited his queen to sit beside him, thus raising her to royal rank. Finally, he proceeded to the great Temple of the Emerald Buddha, renowned among travelers, and there proclaimed himself Defender of the Faith...
...widespread desire for a deeper life of the spirit," "the instinct for interior discipline," the privileges of faith will be safe-guarded," "a spiritual inventory", such are the phrases which the Catholic Commonweal uses in praising the week-end retreat idea, in advocating its extension...
...exaltation, scarcely requires proof, not is it strange. The student of today, and above all Harvard, has no use for the forms of religion. He lives in an age, as well as in a period of his own life, of revaluation of primary moral and intellectual conceptions; his comfortable faiths and prejudices when tested with experience and the white light of intellectual criticism reveal the bare skeleton of dogma, and as such become abhorrent. That he goes too far in rejecting the background of faith is the charge made categorically against him by the self-righteous and captious critic...
Unheralded by front-page stories, Lauritz Melchior, Danish baritone turned tenor, made his U. S. début last week at the Metropolitan Opera House, Manhattan, as Tannhäuser in the first of six Wagner matinées. His performance was not flawless. He was not always faithful to pitch. His high tones, many of them, revealed all too plainly his baritone past. But on the whole he acquitted himself admirably, went in one afternoon to the head of the Metropolitan's class of availables for German tenor roles. An audience whose faith in German tenors has been badly shaken, took...