Word: hell
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Stocking also expounded Hell, against which he said the Congregational & Christian Churches are making an organized attack. "To save men from Hell," said the Moderator, "must ever be the motive of missions. We must have a sense of Hell, not the Hell of a onetime theological faith but the Hell that is a present observable fact. We do not need to preach Hell for there is plenty of it in the world to be seen...
...where he had left off in his $10,000-a-year job as New York City Park Commissioner, his nothing-a-year job as a member of the city's Triborough Bridge Authority. The bridge, which will connect Manhattan, Queens and The Bronx in the vicinity of Hell Gate, is being built with $42,000,000 of PWA funds...
...live some 5,000 monks. That they may not be led into temptation, not only are women banned but also beardless boys (under 18) and female animals whose matings might "furnish an outlandish spectacle to souls which . . . are daily being purified." Spiritually preoccupied with an attainable Heaven, an avoidable Hell, the Athonites do not always succeed in resisting the prickings of the flesh. Investigator Choukas found overwhelming evidence for the stories he had heard about the perverted tastes of these black-bonneted men of God. Nor was he pleased to find that as regards their bodies, their linen, their tableware...
...Belly sang in Manhattan last week for University of Texas alumni. And John Lomax was nervous. Theatrical agents and radio scouts insisted on hearing his protege, who had been out on a wild 24-hour rampage in Harlem. Until it was time for him to sing Lomax kept his hell-raising minstrel locked up in a coat room. But the performance went off without mishap. Lead Belly's voice is rich and clear. He plays and sings with his eyes closed, taps single time with one foot, triple with the other. He claims that most of his songs...
...workman squatting on a box fiddling with a length of wire. Up strode Mr. Sorensen, kicked the box from beneath the workman. When he got to his feet, the workman knocked Mr. Sorensen to the floor. "You're fired!" said Mr. Sorensen as he in turn uprose. "The hell I am," yelled the workman. "I work for the Bell Telephone...