Word: freedom
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week, a whimsical headline artist produced the following: "DR. COOK AS NEAR PAROLE AS POLE." The news was that Federal Judge James C. Wilson of Fort Worth, Tex., had granted probationary freedom to Dr. Cook, under a 1925 law which allows Federal judges to liberate prisoners. But, U. S. Attorney General John Garibaldi Sargent, a Vermont country product, announced that he wanted to test this law in the courts. Judge Wilson agreed, recalled his probation order. So, Dr. Cook, who waited for no poles, must wait for the U. S. courts. Whatever happens, he will be eligible for parole...
...alumni for the unrestricted use of the President and Fellows of the University. There is no suggestion of compulsion concerning either the fact of the subscription or the amount of it. A subscription blank is sent annually to every alumnus of the University, and the individual has absolute freedom of decision whether to subscribe or not, and how much. These blanks have been sent out to all members of the class of 1927, by Lawrence Coolidge, Class Agent...
...Schumann-Heink believes that American men give their women much too much freedom. "American men are undoubtedly the finest I know, but they are cowards in their relations with women! They are afraid of losing them if they assert themselves. That is the state to which our men are dominated by women...
With his audience thus quelled the onetime Dictator spoke: "The Tsarists were the first to come sniveling to us, swearing loyalty to the Revolution. . , The Bolsheviks stole the freedom of the Russian people. . . Both enemies of Russia. . . Someday a new freedom. . . Help for the cause. . . Dawn...
...royal house of David) was her father, Anna (supposedly of the priestly house of Aaron) was her mother. Late in life, after angelic visitations, to Anna and Joachim was born a daughter, Mary. Roman Catholic dogma says that she was herself immaculately conceived.? Early theologians, while maintaining the freedom of Mary from earthly sin, held that she was born like all mortals with the taint of the original sin. How else, they argued, could she have been redeemed by Christ? From her third to her twelfth year (according to the same source) Mary dwelt in the temple; when...