Word: good
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...voice of The Living God-whose words are mostly verbatim from the Gospels-is that of Actor Pedro de Cordoba, good Roman Catholic. The reporter is Walter Connolly. Oldtime Cinemactress Mary Carr (Over the Hill) plays an old woman, selling palm leaves at a church, who guides the reporter back to Jerusalem. What he sees there he tells with straightforward reverence. His description of the Crucifixion is considerably less lurid than that of the French original (soon to be published in translation by Sheed & Ward). Excerpt from the NBC version...
Publisher Funk devoted a section of Your Life to each of what he considered life's major problems-Health, Love, Fortune, Charm, Children, Conversation-added a section on Words because he is a lexicographer at heart, tossed in a digest of an inspirational book for good measure. Printing short articles in which big names talked to little readers on such subjects as "Be Glad Your Wife's Neurotic" and "Why Commit Suicide?" he soon ran his magazine's circulation to more than...
...successful, efficient, intelligent, respectable bankers, businessmen, industrialists, community leaders, architects, engineers, etc., who build up a World's Fair in 1939-though they probably have a good many erotic activities-would attach very little significance to the physical relationship between a man and a woman...
...inventing and manufacturing corrugated steel freight-car ends, Mr. Murphy heads three corporations (including Standard Railway Equipment Co.), owns the fabulous estate of the late William V. Kelley in Lake Bluff near Chicago, a cattle ranch in California, and a $1,000,000 square-rigged yacht. He is a good friend of James Roosevelt. Mr. Murphy is not so well known as his estate or his yacht, and the university had to look up the brief notice of him in Who's Who in order to identify...
...college [according to bullish Mr. White] is a good investment. . . . The buyer usually gets a minimum of 6% on his money . . . in some cases . . . $50,000 a year...