Word: faithful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...written, for the trend of events last week continued to offer no encouragement to Sacco-Vanzetti adherents. There had been not the slightest official indication that the case has taken an unfavorable turn for the condemned men, but both the prisoners themselves and their defense committee had seemingly lost faith in Governor Fuller and his advisory committee. The most striking evidence of their pessimism had been the continuation of their hunger strike. Mr. Sacco had been on his hunger strike since July 17; Mr. Vanzetti had been virtually fasting for the same period, though he at least drank coffee during...
Solemn priests of the Shinto faith entered the private apartments of Her Majesty, the Empress Nagako, at Tokyo last week, and reverently wound about her waist an obi of purest white silk some twelve feet long. Previously this girdle had been purified and made sacred at the Imperial Shrine. Its presentation to the Empress was in the nature of a symbolic pr yer that she might give birth in a few short weeks to a manchild, her first...
Post-Versailles. Woodrow Wilson remains the hero of the War's aftermath, sane among a confusion of tongues, a maligned solitary. .... Franco-German friendship needs patience, faith. Goethe believed it possible. So may we believe.?Count Carlo Sforza, one-time (1920) Foreign Minister of Italy, later (1922) Italian Ambassador to Paris, in rehearsing post-War diplomacy in Europe...
...nightmare of the lower classes has saddened very badly your father's soul. The men of this dying old society, they brutally pulled me away from the embrace of your brother and your poor mother. But, in spite of all, the free spirit of a father's faith still survives, and I have lived for it and for the dream that some day I would have come back to life, among our friends and comrades again, but woe is me." Despondent, indeed, was the tone of Mr. Sacco's letter and gloomy the outlook for both...
...night "striped with lightning" and a day of yellow floods, two boys crucified a hawk; their brother, a visionary, saw the Virgin walking on the sea, mountain tall, mourning her lover; a ranch girl fled to her man to slake her fear of death; the lighthouse keeper's daughter, Faith Heriot, went in a famine of unnatural love to Natalia Morhead, whose husband's act unsexed Faith Heriot two years before. Morhead is not back from the War. Faith nurses his crippled father under the old rooftree, moving about the house "like a restless fire." Natalia mistrusts everything...