Word: faithful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...TIME, June 6 you publish under the heading CHINA the account of an interview with Miss Faith Williams, the daughter of Dr. John E. Williams, who was murdered at Nanking on March 24 by a Chinese soldier during the outrageous attack on foreigners deliberately undertaken by the so-called Nationalist government. _ You state: "She spoke with more animation of the firing, in reprisal, upon Nanking by a British and a U. S. warboat...
...easy to think of as Warren Gamaliel Harding. The audience sees President "Easy" Markham (Actor Berton Churchill) as a stately tool of politicians who run the nation from a poker table stuck away in a private nook known as "the crow's nest." Because of his unwholesome faith in these cronies, he allows the White House to degenerate into what one of the characters described as an automat ("Because when you want to take something out, you just put in a coin"). When the graft is on the point of being exposed by a Senate investigation, President Markham, broken...
smarty who proves to his married friends that any wife will lose faith in her husband after finding in his coat pocket a note signed "Love, Helen," or "Kisses, Eleanor." Then the bachelor almost gets into a jam with his own fiancee over these same transplanted notes. There are a few bright chips of dialog but they are hidden under a bushel of small talk. The playwright, Owen Davis, is credited with having written more than 100 plays...
...parlor- bedroom-and-bath era of U. S. farce, complaining bitterly to his friends of the sad condition of the theatre that necessitated such ig- noble dramaturgy. He now has a more congenial role, but not, prob- ably, for long. Though cartoons of Dickens's narrative have been faith- fully staged, theatre-goers will find themselves bored by what is, after all, only the Pickwick tabloid Papers...
Many persons of small faith have said to themselves: "Now that I am very ill and not likely to be made whole by the ministrations of leeches, I shall say a prayer. If I recover, it will be because my prayer has been granted and therefore I shall proclaim the existence of God to be an established fact and shall praise and magnify Him forever...