Word: heaven
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...itself is one of the lesser known works of the author, but it has all the style, all the fine drama, all the able characteristics of his more well known works. As for Hugh Miller he has played with Sir Herbert Tree and all the satellites in the English heaven. A short while ago the Vagabond saw him as Jingle in Pickwick and he will personally guarantee any Dicken's performance Mr. Miller sees fit to give...
While Ambassador to the U. S. (1919-22) Samurai Shidehara was made a Baron (1920) by the Son of Heaven who thus equipped him with sufficient social prestige to represent Japan fittingly at the Washington Conference (1921-22). Since then he has been several times Foreign Minister, served as Acting Premier (TIME, Nov. 24) when his old friend and classmate at the Tokyo Imperial University, Premier Yuko Hamaguchi ("The Lion") was skewered by a would-be assassin's dagger and lingered on to die last month...
Edison's heritage was that of Protestant Western Reserve. He professed no religion, avowed himself a Free Thinker. A sardonic writer once pictured Edison at the Gates of Heaven. Said the Scientist to St. Peter: "I gave the world . . . good light, cheap light. Is it my fault they used it to ... make a cheap bazaar out of every street? ... I gave them the phonograph, so that every man, woman and child might know the glory of great music. . . . Yet today I am afraid there is less music in the heart and mind of the common man. ... I gave them...
...Saturday night she will start her meetings at the Boston Garden, and she has already announced interesting pageants on Heaven and Hell with angels and flames, which will aid in converting the facinorous. "A thousand sinners saved each night would be a good average", she said just before leaving Los Angeles. At the same time Brother Hutten's statement that the meetings will cost about three thousand dollars a night makes one wonder if the price of souls has gone down in proportion with that of living. The plan for a complete "baptistery" on the Common was a stroke...
...swallow stayed north too long. Winter came and the swallow died of cold. The Prince's heart cracked. The Town Councillors, squabbling over the Prince's metal body. threw the heart and the small dead bird on an ash heap from which an angel carried them to heaven...