Word: faithful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...would be difficult to support them [the foundations of government and society] if faith in Bible teachings should cease to be practically universal in our country. ... It seems as though a popular familiarity with the Scriptures is not so great at the present time as it has been in the past in American life." So wrote President Coolidge to one Eugene E. Thompson, organizer of Bible classes at the Church of the Epiphany, Washington...
...public life who says what he believes, regardless of whether it is what he would like to believe or would like others to believe. Thus, and thus only, it was not surprising that the nomination of Governor Smith, Wet, was predicted by Senator Borah, whose faith in Prohibition is so great that last year he went out of his way to become its outstanding champion among Liberals...
...That two notable forgeries accomplished by this man were: 1) a series of "documents" sold by him to U. S. oil interests and by them laid before the Government in. good faith as proving close cooperation between the Mexican Government and the Government of Soviet Russia; 2) a set of "evidence" sold to prominent U. S. Roman Catholics and purporting to prove that a nefarious compact exists between the Ku Klux Klan and the Mexican Government...
...mankind standardized into that deaf torture, the dinner jacket? Where will this end? Soon we may hear that Germans do not drink beer that Frenchmen do not tempt innocent American chorus-girl-hood, that manicuring is a profitable Chinese industry. Nothing is more shameful than to destroy the faith of the great American peepul in foreign nature...
...practice, there has been no apparent conflict between his faith and his patriotism. And, broad- minded Catholics argue, the dilemma is more imagined than real, the conflicts between Church and State law more legalistic than actual. There is a difference between being Catholic in faith and Papal in policy...