Word: grounded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...glowing words she drew a picture of the clubhouse: 1,225 bedrooms, a miniature park enclosed, a garden terrace for tea, fireplaces flanked by soft divans, ballrooms, assembly rooms for musicales and lectures, libraries, laundries, dining-rooms, cafeteria-she completed her towering picture. The envious were free to mutter "ground-grippers...
Next day, one Jean Henri Baptiste Brieux, son of a poor kiosk woman, entered several shops where religious knick-knacks were on sale, seized and dashed upon the ground some two dozen cheap plaster figurines of the Blessed Virgin. Arrested, he explained: "In revenge for 30 copies of La Vie Parisienne and nine of Le Sourire seized from my mother and torn up by the Abbé Bethlehem, I smashed a few of those idolatrous images sold by the accomplices of priesthood. They seem to me fully as poisonous to the soul as any magazine my mother ever sold...
...Cain sacrificed to the Lord "the fruit of the ground," Abel "the firstlings of his flock." "And the Lord had respect unto Abel and to his offering: But unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect...
...following the startling endorsement of her methods by Dr. S. Parkes Cadman of Brooklyn, N. Y., who as President of the Federal Council of Churches carries weight as a Protestant spokesman. Dr. Cadman's endorsement made many wonder whether the seeds of Christianity are falling upon such stony ground that all the magic of modern publicity is required to make them germinate. At any rate it was certain that Miss Utley's promised "kick" set many to examining the rhythmical prose of ECCLESIASTES. Its philosophy falls strangely on U. S. ears...
...learn the mass technique that flowered in Elbert Hubbard, Nelson Doubleday, E. Haldeman-Julius. All that remain of itinerant America are the scurrying hired droves who still "drum" everything from coal dust to white space; the glib "representatives" whose backslaps, hotel snoring and smoking-car anecdotes constitute an unmelodioua ground-buzz in the U. S. chorus...