Word: faithful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sleeping garment. The thumb guard was found some 3,000 ft. from the Lindbergh house. Therefore, contends the State, the child was probably killed when the ladder broke, its corpse stripped shortly after the kidnapper left the house. The sleeping suit was used as an earnest of good faith by the writer of the ransom notes, which the State's handwriting experts will attribute to Hauptmann...
Laymen for whom Stravinsky's music holds an almost pagan quality are surprised to hear that he is ardently religious, says his prayers and goes regularly to the Russian Orthodox Church. But even with his faith and fervor Stravinsky has remained a rabid hypochondriac, always worrying over his own and everyone else's health. His nervous hope last week was that U. S. audiences would be more understanding than the customs officer who picked a package of wordless scores from his luggage and asked him in what language he had written them...
CROWELL, has added the first full length biography of Mendelsohn to its rapidly growing library of the lives of interesting people. The story of the musician's struggles against his professional antagonists in Berlin and against his position as a man born in the Jewish faith is dramatically and interestingly told by Schirma Kaufman one of the younger members of the Philadelphia Orchestra...
...especially shown a sympathetic understanding of the minor details of the musician's environment and the effect of his heritage on his compositions and behaviour. He portrays the strong influence of the orthodox character of the senior Mendelsohn on his son's education, the fight against the Jewish faith and its consequent reaction after becoming protestant, and the guiding spirit of the great Goothe with a comprehensive touch which can only be given by a writer who knows his subject
...best essays for the ideas it expresses is entitled "After Religion, What?" by Frank Snowden Hopkins, a newspaperman. "The only philosophy," he says, which most members of the younger generation today can accept, "is one which is agnostic in its metaphysics, yet which stresses the faith of the human spirit in its own capabilities. It must be in short, a rational and purposeful philosophy, a creation of the human intelligence, a philosophy which, admitting all the limitations of the mortal mind, refuses to compromise with medieval superstitions and wishful self deceptions...