Word: faithfully
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that Nat Dial was the author. He and I come from that little storm-centre of the United States which has given to the nation some of its brightest and purest lights in the political arena, and during the turmoil and strife of war we maintained and kept the faith of pure and unadulterated democracy. The old party was our pillar of fire by night and cloud by day. When the hosts of rapine were threatening to engulf us, the Democratic Party was the point around which the beleaguered white people of the South rallied and looked...
...went to Indianapolis and set up as a clairvoyant. Later she moved to Terre Haute. She wrought apparently miraculous cures, unveiled secrets, prophesied events by faith in her simple theology. "Every characteristic utterance" which she gave to the world was "dictated while under spirit influence, and most often in a totally unconscious state...
...author does much to his public," he said the other day. ''He hasn't any right to give them the sort of story they don't expect from him. He must keep faith with them and do his best to see that his work never bores them. That is the writer's unforgiveable...
...often quoted with smug exultation in needy homes, in great houses with lamentable quakings. It has to do with a camel, a rich man's son, Heaven, the eye of a needle. The law, equally familiar, has to do with two Gods-one the Father of the Christian faith, the other Mam mon; a man cannot serve both. If he cleaves to the one, must he foreswear wealth? or can he discipline wealth and its devouring deity to the service he has himself elected...
...stretch of the imagination-asking a child to believe that a heavy mooley cow could jump over the moon! Think of a kitty playing a fiddle and then try to convince the child that a dish could run away with a spoon. . . . Thus the children's sweet faith was lessened and they were made to doubt and distrust. . . . Mother Goose was indeed a goose...