Word: faithful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...seems to me that a paper so intimate as yours, speaking to its guests in general society, should restrain itself from giving offense to any one present. It is no answer to say; "Let the injured person retire." You do not profess to be an organ of any particular faith or creed and in truth you do not wish any of your subscribers to retire. . . . HOMER MOONEY...
...there will be other shovels. When Pegasus wings and muses buskin off, there will come the welcome biss of perhaps a firmer representation of man's greatest feat the steam shovel. And man ever quick to have faith, will discover the unity in multiplicity, the permanence in change and the class of 1930 will again have amusement...
...Leaguer, I am inclined to pick the St. Louis Cardinals to win the World Series," was the statement made last night by Coach Mitchell of the University baseball team when interviewed concerning his views on the Series. "Today's game was an unfortunate setback, but I still have my faith pinned on the Cards. Had Pennock lost yesterday, it would have all been over except the shouting. I expect Alexander to come through with another brilliant victory...
...measured degree of self-withdrawal combined with a hint of infinite comprehension. It is an art which can be practiced, in its higher degrees, only by amateurs, but when Bishop Ingram oversteps urbanity in his social assault upon the young persons submitted to his attention, he always has his Faith as an excuse. He has done an immense amount of good. He was appointed Lord Bishop of London at the early age of 43 upon nomination by the Crown after four years of a lesser episcopacy. Until that time he had been working in Bethnal Green, London, a slum district...
These phrases and slogans, I believe, are accepted as gospel by the great majority of our people. They are taken on faith by men and women who insist on nationality in religion. Yet it can readily be demonstrated that no one of these principles is true without large qualifications, while some of them embody only a half truth or no truth at all. They have come down to us from earlier days, enshrined in the literature of patriotism, and so often reiterated from generation to generation that they have become a sort of biological inheritance. They are firmly stamped...