Word: heaven
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Thank heaven there is to be an intelligently edited newsreel...
Genuinely embarrassed, the Generalissimo sent 10,000 soldiers boiling after the murderers last week. And in Paterson, N. J. Mr. Stam's brother Jacob said: "We know we will see our dear ones in Heaven, and while there are tears there is an undercurrent of joy, because we know the way of the Lord. They were worthy to be in His service and they were worthy to die a martyr's death...
...standardize Easter for the sake of Trade (as Christmas is lost in rubicund sales ads) what will remain? Only lovers in rural lanes will hereafter lift their eyes through glittery foliage and salute the orb. . . . A standardized calendar will do away with our last vestigial connection to a real heaven. So the urban business mind decrees. But some of us will continue to praise the moon, living and dying blessed lunatics, along with Orientals and other respectable conservatives...
With easy, informal Rooseveltian technique, Mr. Davis dropped his naval depth bomb at a luncheon tendered him by U. S. correspondents. The situation was simple enough. In Tokyo, as everyone knew, the Son of Heaven had pored through his owlish tortoise-shell glasses over the draft text of Japan's denunciation of the Washington Naval Treaty last week and, finding this denunciation good, had sent it to the Privy Council. Only a miracle could stop Japan from scrapping the 5-5-3 ratio and starting a naval race. No miracle man, Ambassador Davis contented himself with a speech well calculated...
...Theatre Guild has brought Jane Cowl and John Halliday to the Plymouth this week in "Rain From Heaven," as the second play of its Boston Subscription Season. The play was written by S. N. Behrman, from whose pen came last season's success, "Biography." Those who expected a similar play, however, would have been disappointed, for this new work is something of a comedy at times and at others is poignant drama. But it is highly entertaining and it is good drama...