Word: faithfulness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Fortune's Maggot" is a short novel, but it is one of the finest things of the year. It is a happy fact that subtlety plays no part in Bostonian censorship or the book might be suppressed. Certainly it is more blasting to one's faith than the hearty rant of Mr. Lewis against the clergy; for whereas Lewis attacked one clergyman, Miss Warner, with her satire and her fine cutting humor, gives sharp jabs into every ideal for which any clergyman stands, leaving the reader with the furtive feeling that there is something wrong with civilization and that life...
...well that her husband (Lionel Atwill) will always love her. The husband suspects less tender motives. The big scene looks as if it were pitching for tragedy. But that impulse cracks in the middle of the last act, and the playwright pastes on a happy ending, including love, faith and a wholesome dose of moral retribution. Miss Brady, as usual, ably projects her emotional scenes. But she, like any other performer who would essay the role, looks ridiculous in the heaping portions of lovey-dovey that were just too darling about the last fringe of the Victorian period but smell...
...Rowe, heraldic artist, who traced the Coolidge family back for centuries. He added that "Coolidge" probably was not of Irish origin. Artist Rowe displayed in Washington a painting of the Coolidge coat of arms, a gold griffin on a green field, with the insignia "Virtute et Fide" (Virtue and Faith). The griffin, said Mr. Rowe, symbolizes watchfulness. It appears also in the coat of arms of J. P. Morgan...
...Digges), hobbles quaint Mr. Pirn (Erskine Sanford), his memory given to wandering off on appealing but unreliable excursions of second childhood. In an inadvertent moment he mentions the vagaries of one Jacob Tellsworthy, who, unknown to Mr. Pirn, is Mrs. Marden's first husband, believed in all good faith to be irreproachably dead. The prospect of bigamy in the family, even though unintentional, rocks the Mardens to their skeletons...
...Need of Religion"; Rev. A. F. Hickey, "Roman Catholocism"; Rabbi S. S. Wise, Judaism"; Dean W. L. Sperry, "Protestantism"; Dr. H. S. Fosdick, "The Future of the Church." The second half: Dr. Frederick Palmer, "Is Immortality Necessary?"; Prof. J. H. Woods, "Philosophy of Religion"; Prof J. B. Pratt, "Faith and Workship"; Prof. F. G. Peabody, "Social Teachings of Jesus"; and Prof D. C. Macintosh, "Christian Faith and the Historic Jesus...