Word: fundamentalistism
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...chance she went to France as a nurse. Meanwhile Hans Haaska, Missouri doctor's son, was finding his painful way through priggishness to virtue. In England he was doing well in biology when his sister's death called him home. There he married an older woman, narrow, Fundamentalist, and together they went to Africa to physic the heathen. But his marriage went to smash on the Rock of Ages. When he met a second-rate singer who flattered him, though a child could have told him not to take a chance, he did, with disastrous results. Disillusioned, middle...
...coming English novelists, Norah James is not quite up but she seems to be coming. Her Sleeveless Errand (1929), a potent presentation of justifiable suicide, was suppressed by the London police. Even fundamentalist parsons, however, should find nothing to cavil at, much to approve, in Jealousy...
...without other ambitions. Our minds recoil from such fearful eventualities, and the laws of a Christian civilization will prevent them. But might not lopsided creatures of this type fit in well with the Communist doctrines of Russia?" Aggressively conservative, Winston Churchill's desk-poundings will please many a Fundamentalist in politics. But the next moment with absent-minded effrontery he is apt to give away a point to the enemy: "Democratic governments drift along the line of least resistance, taking short views, paying their way with sops and doles and smoothing their way with pleasant-sounding platitudes. Never...
...heckled me, and I didn't like it. They threatened me with a subpena. I got fighting mad and have been fighting ever since." At Yale (Class of 1924) Candidate Chappie gained publicity as a "radical." In Wisconsin he campaigned lustily in & out of the State as a Republican fundamentalist. He flayed the La Follettes as "political racketeers." He excoriated ambitious Dr. Glenn Frank's University of Wisconsin as a hotbed of Communism, free love and atheism, with a faculty of "pinks." He was out to rescue the State from Socialism. A roaring reactionary, he battled those who "would poison...
Died. Rev. Dr. Henry Chapman Swearingen, 63, of St. Paul, onetime moderator of the Presbyterian General Assembly; of heart disease; aboard a train near Hastings, Neb. As a result of the Modernist-Fundamentalist controversy, he was appointed chairman of a special commission of 15 in 1925 "to study the causes of unrest in the denomination." Later he headed a commission investigating marriage, divorce and remarriage...