Word: fathers
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...breaking of the Concordat of 1801, said Father de la Chapelle, was in itself an unspeakable act on the part of the government. The government declared that by breaking the Concordat the church and the state would be made independent of each other; but in reality the object of the breach was to enable the state to control the church and appropriate all its property to state uses. When the Pope protested against such action on the part of the state, an agreement was suggested by the latter that worship associations, composed of persons interested in the church, be instituted...
...rather conventional love story follows, with the merchant Venturewell, as father, Jasper Merrythought, his apprentice, and his daughter Luce, as lovers, and Humphrey, as the worthless but favored suitor...
...Smith compared the quiet home life and calm business career of fifty years ago with the conventional customs and frenzied haste of today. Fortunate is the man who was brought up in his youth by a wise mother and father of the old type--parents whose sole aim was to educate their children in the ways of simplicity and true happiness. Today the seemingly successful man is so engrossed in his own interest that many external affairs which contain the real pleasures of life are excluded. He has no time for vacation, for the joys of home life...
...written, but neither is strikingly original. The greybearded spinner of the impossible story of "Dead Man's Pine" is vividly and convincingly drawn, and the inconsistencies of his yarn are not too much insisted on. "Her House ont of Order" introduces the hackneyed characters of the wealthy and eccentric father, the beautiful daughter, and the rich lover, against the background of a revolving house and an automobile. On the whole, these three contributions serve to confirm the reviewer's belief that undergraduate fiction is most likely to be successful when it concerns itself with undergraduate life...
...pretence and to manufacture a market forecast for the paper. The letter is written with random carelessness and sent to the paper before the real millionaire arrives. Joshua P. Brown, of course, quickly dethrones Jimmy; but the letter has already done its work and Vanderventer Parks, the father of Frances Parks, "Jimmy's" flancee, is almost ruined by the consequent drop of the stock in his company. At this discovery the hero at once writes another letter, booming the stock which formerly had fallen so low, and again signs the initials which are at once his own and the millionaire...