Word: gospeleer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...early Thin Man pictures suffered from Mr. Hammett's obvious failure to learn what English A students accept as gospel, but they were made enjoyable and often very amusing by some clever dialogue and by a pair of Hollywood's best wise-crackers. In the latest of the series, "The Shadow of the Thin Man," the former redeeming feature has been scrubbed away to the bone, and nothing is left but Mr. Hammett's amazingly naked dramatic structure. William Powell, as detective Nick Charles, still finds great sport in solving murders while sipping highballs' surprisingly enough, no criminal...
...Editor Dark denounced his own established Church of England for living off taxes paid largely by non-members and off income from slum property ("money extracted from the half-fed for . . . bug-infested attics is paid to men whose business it is to preach the Gospel"). The Anglicans, he says, have strong support only from the middle class. "The once crowded slum churches in London . . . are now for the most part almost empty. The fashionable churches are emptier." Only 18% of the population attend any church regularly (U.S. estimate...
...upshot of all this is the return of Russia to the Gospel, it will not be the first time the faith has been propagated by the extremities of war. Constantine gave Christianity official status in Rome in Gratitude for his victory at the Milvian Bridge. Clovis made the Franks Christians after winning the Battle of Tolbiac. Charlemagne made the Germans Christians with death as the alternative. Much good probably came of these earlier conversions, more good may come of the President's deal...
...that providential point the General heard of a young man with a bright idea. The young man, who had already organized a committee to spread the gospel of nonintervention, was personable Robert ("Bobbie") Douglas Stuart Jr., a Princeton graduate and a student at Yale Law School, son of a wealthy Quaker Oats Co. executive. The name of his committee: The Committee to Defend America First. The General joined immediately...
...friars were in every part of the world, from Persia to England, from Abyssinia to Canada. In the midst of his wearisome and questionable political activities, the thought that he was helping to spread the gospel of Christ must often have been a source of strength and consolation. True, his enemies in Spain and Austria and at the Roman Curia accused him of using his missionaries as French agents and anti-Habsburg fifth columnists. And, alas, the charge was not entirely baseless...