Word: godly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...With these words ex-Governor Robert F. Bradford of Massachusetts last week fanned smoldering embers of discord in his church. The Christian Register, official publication of the American Unitarian Association, had bubbled with controversy over whether the insistently creedless Unitarians should at least bind themselves to a belief in God. But at the 124th annual meeting of the association, in Boston last week, the delegates voted to keep the argument off the floor, at least until next year...
...First thing is Ten Commandments of God. This thing we put in their mind-we repeat it, repeat it, repeat it. After that, they believe it. After that, we tell them aboui Jesus, who love us and come down to save the world. We tell them this love -so everyone no fighting, must love one another...
...Ormandy and the orchestra. And when he finished the program with Ravel's Daphnis et Chloe, the white ties in the three-guinea stalls shouted bravos, while the galleries stomped and whistled. Ormandy beamed & bowed ten times, finally ended shouts of "Encore" by launching into God Save the King.* Then the musicians dashed off to a party at the U.S. embassy for a chance to meet the Queen...
...Said Lord Beaverbrook's astonished Evening Standard: "Here at last is a foreign orchestra that can play God Save the King, although nearly two centuries have passed since it ceased to be the American anthem...
...battles of the metaphysicians, that aroused the indignation of German pedants and specialists. "People were never thoroughly contented with me," Goethe confided in his last years to Johann Peter Eckermann, the youth who was to become his Boswell. "[They] always wished me otherwise than it has pleased God to make me ... People expected from me some modest expression, humbly setting forth the total unworthiness of my person and my work ... I believed in God and in Nature, and in the triumph of good over evil; but this was not enough for pious souls: I was also required to believe other...