Word: gooding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...house in smart Mayfair, London, which they hope to kindle into a literary salon with the aid of George Bernard Shaw, Arnold Bennett, et al. Meanwhile, it was reported that retired Fisticuffer Tunney had agreed to fight five British heavyweights in one evening-all, however, for the good of charity...
...Glasgow, Scotland, the Students' Union was a bedlam. The air was filled with tobacco smoke, flying playing-cards, the words and music of a slightly ribald chant, "Oh, Aimee, dear Aimee, we all love you so!" Hung in the hall were signs: GOOD OLD WHISKEY! LADIES MAY SMOKE! SCOTCH WHISKEY IS GOOD FOR ALL COMPLEXIONS! Vitreous vessels, onetime containers of whiskey, stout, champagne, were in idle profusion-all dedicated to the embarrassment of Aimee Semple McPherson, notorious evangelist who inadvertently had chosen university election time to speak to the studentry. Pitifully, persistently she tried to make herself heard above...
...unwritten dogma of the Protestant Episcopal Church commands the observance of the tenets of good taste. When the President & Mrs. Coolidge walked to the dais for the opening of the 49th triennial General Convention of the Church, they picked their way through a lane of approving smiles, nor was there handclapping, for the beating of palm upon palm, except as a signal to acolytes, is neither rubric nor good taste at a church ceremony. When it came time for the House of Deputies (lower legislative house of the convention) to elect a president, only three ballots were necessary to affirm...
...came time to do something about the highly controversial subject of divorced persons and their status in the Church a commission was appointed to give ten years' study to divorce in general. For a decade, at least, official (and perhaps antagonizing) action was deferred thereby. This was in good taste...
...Good taste, however, needed defense in the debate on the question of authorizing the Commission on Evangelism to cooperate with the United Commission on Evangelism of the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America. This authorization, it seemed to some who were opposed to official contact with the Council, would have brought the Episcopalians very close to the Council. Said onetime (1922-27) Senator-from-Pennsylvania George Wharton Pepper, of the House of Deputies: "The advantages of membership in this council are, to my mind, highly exaggerated...