Word: holt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...born in Cambridge and has taught at Harvard 41 years, Dr. Ford has been decorated by France, Italy, Rumania and Spain for his zeal in spreading their languages, literatures and histories. He has written or edited more than 20 textbooks and anthologies, is editor of Henry Holt & Co.'s Spanish series, has been president of the Italian Historical Society of Massachusetts, the Dante Society and (1931-33) the solemn American Academy of Aris & Sciences...
...Bishop Edwin Holt Hughes (TIME...
...Ivan Lee Holt of St. Louis, urbane and gracious retiring president of the Council, struck the meeting's keynote in appraising the Mission. To his 300 hearers, who represent all the Protestant unity there is in the U. S.-a cautious confederation of 23 denominations with 24,000,000 communicants-Dr. Holt said: "It must be perfectly evident that the appeal of the Missioners has been that of united Protestantism. . . . American Protestantism faces reorganization or disintegration. The Federal Council occupies a more strategic position for leadership in this reorganization than ever before in its history...
Agreeing that church union is their only salvation, the 300 delegates thereupon voted to replace Dr. Holt with another lover of unity, Dr. Edgar DeWitt Jones, 60, of Detroit. This affable churchman, who will run the Federal Council for the next two years, is a Disciple of Christ. Born in Texas, he filled pastorates in rural Kentucky, Cleveland and Bloomington, Ill. before going to Detroit's Central Christian Church in 1920. That church Dr. Jones found in a run-down district, merged it with North Woodward Christian Church, raised money in 1928 for a fine new building...
...total effect of "Life's a Villain" is somewhat bewildering. The title, the first sight of the sophisticated crowd which serves as a background for the main story, the first blares of commonness from nouvelles-riches Mrs. Holt and Mrs. Turner; all lead one to expect social commentary rather than sentiment, for surely these people are not here just to be amusing. But then you do get the sentiment. And it's often quite nice. One only wishes that he did not get that disturbing feeling of something not quite said...