Word: heathenism
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...considered good writing, not even California paid him much attention. When he began to cultivate his own garden and write stories in the dialect of his adopted State the whole U. S. sat up and took notice. Luck of Roaring Camp made Harte's reputation; the humorous poem The Heathen Chinee made him a national figure. It begins...
...progressed from the cellar to the kitchen and finally to the parlor, where, beside a kerosene lamp and beneath the family portraits, interest blossomed into love. They invariably married. After he had made Phi Beta Kappa and had graduated summa cum laude, they went West to educate the heathen...
...spite of his (assumed) name, Author "R. Hernekin Baptist's" good words are all for heathendom. But he regards heathen nature (especially female) with a civilized and curious eye, makes much of natural facts not usually dwelt upon so lovingly. Publishers Cape & Smith will not divulge Author "Baptist's" real name but they admit he is English, assert he is "very famous...
Debater F. E. Jones of Caius College argued against Chicago: "It is governed by two heathen Gods: Mars, the God of Battle; and Bacchus, God of the Bottle." This alliteration was well received. Finally Edgar Wallace argued for Chicago- (it was pleasantly impossible at times to tell who was for what): "The lynch law will eventually wipe out those deplorable men who sit in the seat of government." Having amused themselves thus for a whole evening, members of the Cambridge Union voted 171 to 143 that Chicago must experience the fate of Carthage...
...source of the great Yellow River. Salouen is 14,000 ft. high, cold, blustery as the Alpine heights. It is a Buddhist shrine. The St. Bernard group will build a hospice there, will try to convert, Buddhist pilgrims to Roman Catholicism, will succor the snowbound, be they converts or heathen...