Word: faithful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...they claim, but it is for some other reason. ... Of all the people on earth, those of the South should not raise the religious issue against Governor Smith because he is a Roman Catholic, or against any other man because of his religious faith. . . . During the dark and trying days of reconstruction when the Democratic party of the South was on the verge of dissolution it was the Irish Catholics of the North who held the party together. . . . We should all be free from religious bigotry and intolerance. ... I am of Protestant faith, and I, like many other Protestants, inherited...
...goes on: I counsel thee to keep the king's commandment. . . . Where the word of a king is, there is power: and who may say unto him, What doest thou? Angrily, readers asked themselves: Do Uldine's declarations of literate faith in Biblical commandments let her forget the Magna Charta and the Rights of Man as expressed in the U. S. Constitution...
Bearlike Artamonov Sr. becomes almost lovable during his invasion of the town of Dryomov, with hia masterful bluntness, self-assurance, genuine humility, faith in work; his crude affection for his sons, his bold carnality. Pyotr, the eldest son, is no less stupid than his father except that he knows he is stupid. His endless wondering about the right and wrong of things is what undoes him. Did he kill the clerk's nasty little boy by accident, he asks himself, or in malice, or to save his own son an evil companionship. He cannot decide that and a hundred...
Author Gorky introduces characteristic figures-the hunchback brother who tries to hang himself for hopeless love, later becoming a monk, then losing his faith; women of various shapes and sizes, uniformly brainless except Pyotr's mother-in-law, who became his father's mistress; a pink-faced carpenter, a philosophizing ancient and that creature as indispensable to a Russian novel as are bobbed hair and bachelors to the Saturday Evening Post-the village idiot. But Author Gorky's powers, however fully displayed here, have produced books that were far more readable than this one. The action...
...Hopkins has recognized them and it would serve no purpose to discuss them specifically until the full details of the Dartmouth program appear. Suffice it to say, first that Mr. Hopkins and his associates have spent many months on the formulation of the proposals published yesterday, second that good faith on the part of any college adopting so sweeping a reform is to be presumed and will obviate any such objection as that the college would make one team in practice a university team and the other a second team...