Word: faithful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most moving to My Leader's Hamburg hearers was a half hour passage in the 90-minute speech in which he told the story of his life from housepainter to statesman, traced the growth of his faith that somehow Socialism must be fused with Nationalism to produce a German synthesis of effort for the glory of the Fatherland...
...Major, President Roosevelt's monetary attack is divided into three phases: 1) threat of inflation, which gave a mighty fillip to business last year; 2) credit inflation, which is just getting under way; 3) printing presses, which may never be used at all. Major Angas pins his faith on credit inflation. He argues that devaluation of the dollar broadened the gold base for credit 75%, which would theoretically permit a more towering credit structure than that...
...prayers are formalized to suit the composite character of a large congregation. In 15 Sunday morning prayers he observes that Dr. Fosdick expresses "all the needs and desires he may be expected to express during the succeeding five years . . . for economic deliverance, devotion to the highest, glad and fresh faith, fruitfulness of the soul, integration of our lives, renewed aspirations, attunement to God, beauty, high thoughts, basic virtues, larger and higher visions, spiritual welfare and wholesomeness of life...
...Britain the quality of writing is not strained. Even when they have nothing to say her novelists generally manage to say it well. Author Marshall is best known for his engaging and witty Father Malachy's Miracle, wherein a simple, dumpy little priest, taking literally the pronouncement that faith can move mountains, effects extraordinary miracles to the consternation of Christendom. Author Hampson, emerging from a background of sports and the theatre, is remembered for his lively and dramatic tale about an English pub, Saturday Night at the Greyhound...
...School, Pitgoorlie Bay, Scotland, is the easygoing, outwardly conventional, inwardly puzzled ruler of a domain. The Rev. Charles ("Wearie Willie") Murray, devout, pious, gentle, with definite leanings toward Rome, is constantly baffled by the problems confronting a pedagog in the English public school. While masters worry over problems of faith and dogma, of pedagogy and discipline, of finances and families, the boys concern themselves with cricket, standing, good form, smut and tormenting "Wearie Willie." Young Middleton falls in love with "Tired Tim's" blithe young daughter and after certain vicissitudes marches bravely off to war. Bill Sikes is expelled...