Word: holmesing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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In the Protestant churches, warm weather brings conferences and assemblies. Ministers meet, talk, elect officers, pass resolutions, shake hands, go home with new pious zeal. Last week met the following church groups: Dunkers or Dunkards are so named because they dunk. Descended from German pietists of the 18th Century, they...
The talking parlor-liberal New York minister, John Haynes Holmes, has again stood on a platform; this time he tells us that civilization is doomed; and evidently he expects people to believe that civilization is doomed. But Mr. Holmes does not prove conclusively why one should believe it nor does...
Mr. Holmes selection of the four "immortals" of the present decaying age, whom he considers to be Einstein, Freud, Lenin, and Gandhi, only make one change from a smile to bursting laughter. Mr. Holmes' parlor-pseudo liberalism seems to amount to mere naivete with the added assumption that his audiences...
In impassioned oratory that attracted the coat-room habitues to the Senate Chamber and stilled the small talk in the galleries, Sonator Borah, swerving from a discussion of policy concerning the delegation of tariff powers to the President, today became the embattled defender of the Ship of State and the...
The diamond on Holmes Field has been sodded, but it is doubtful if it can be used this year.