Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Phillips Brooks House Association has announced its second series of lectures to be given on Sunday afternoons at 4 o'clock in Peabody Hall. Phillips Brooks House. These lectures are open to all members of the University. The first half of the course was designated to help men to better understand the part of organized religion. The second half of the course, which consists of the following lectures, will touch more intimately on the religious problems and perplexities faced by the individual...
...Financial help and subsidies were granted by me to 29 families of offenders. When in a position to do so and if they wish the proscribed may take their families with them . . . to islands of the Mediterranean and the Adriatic, chiefly to Pantellaria, off Tunis, and the islands of Tremiti, in the Adriatic. . . . There is no work for them on the islands, but they will be well treated, They are in charge of my Black Shirt militia...
...Farmer Dvoracek cornered, prostrate and already gored; seized the bull's nose, hung on while being flailed about until a chunk of nose and the bull's ring tore away, leaped for another grip, drove the bull outdoors bellowing, bounded to the kitchen door, barked, led help to Farmer Dvoracek...
...this year, unique displays, incredible suffering and destitution, old-fashioned slums, widows and orphans, homeless babies and centenarians, everything. This way for the 'thrill of giving,' the 'pleasure and satisfaction' of charity (New York Times editorial). Good for jaded nerves and appetites; the best tonic for your conscience; a help in digesting your Christmas dinner...
...talked to me quite a little about his will and was impatient because I could not help him. He seemed to think because I had graduated from college I should be able to tell him just where to make 20 or 30 million do the best work for education. There has been a good deal of criticism about the chief's will, most of it, I am bound to say, from people who will never have any difficulty in disposing of their own estates. The critics may rest assured?it was not a hasty will. It was a very...