Word: gracing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...German Reformed Church. Like his professor-father he is an eminent theologian. His theology, now called Barthianism, is pessimistic, dogmatic. It offers the dun-colored thesis that Man is immoral, selfish, bound to be an "unprofitable servant" to the end. Man achieves nothing, will be saved only by grace and belief in the "absolute otherness of God." Barthianism rejects Modernism in so far as Modernism throws out too much of the Bible, too much of God. Fundamentalism also is rejected insofar as it is hampered by the Bible...
...flabelli bearers (with ostrich fans) he begged all the world to pray God for peace. Among his 35,000 listeners in St Peter's were Signora Rachele Mussolini, and a man who ran up to the sedia gestatoria, threw a paper in the Pope's lap, crying "I want grace! I want grace!" Later Pius XI inquired about the poor fellow, learned he was unemployed, ordered that everything possible be done...
...books, none owned a copy. The familiar Alger doctrine of ultimate riches for the honest, industrious, poor boy was accepted by youngsters between 7 and 1 1 . On their own experience older moppets vigorously doubted his thesis. To Russell Owen, able newsgatherer of the New York Times, Mrs. Grace H. Bell Fortescue gave her first formal interview since her arrest and indictment in Honolulu for the murder of Joseph Kaha-hawai, charged with attacking her daughter, Mrs. Thomas Hedges Massie. Declared Mrs. Fortescue: "... I am glad it is all out in the open. Those days when my daughter...
...they should be forbidden to swim except during the College swimming season. Our baseball team would be sufficiently handicapped if its practice were limited to three days before each game and if it were forced to play with an indoor baseball. I question if the great reformer whose editorials grace the Bulletin realizes the full possibilities of his plan...
...that the Bovril board has the honor of including a member of the royal family (addicted to Bovril since Edward VII) but whose name is discreetly withheld. Chairman of the Board is Lord Luke of Pavenham, K. B. E., whose grandfather was Grocer John Johnston. Fellow members are His Grace the Duke of Atholl and that celebrated Tory jurist, Viscount Hailsham, P. C., onetime Lord Chancellor and present Minister of War. If it were conceivable that such names as these needed corroboration to inspire confidence they have had the advantage of being supported by such patriotic and patrician...