Word: idea
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...justifies the people's faith in democracy. They feel that Wall Street and Main Street look the same to him. They note that his idea seems to be the simple one of giving an honest and practical people as honest and practical a government as he knows...
...good. I stretched the other two out and then slit their throats. . . . After that I did a dash for the underbrush. . . . By this time the rest of the bandits began shooting. . . . I never dared to stop for a single moment. . . . I had a pretty good idea of the country and I made for Cuernavaca. I got there, all in, but safe" (Then motored to Mexico City...
...single Church of Christ from which they one day unhappily broke away. . . . May they return to the common Father. He, forgetting the hard words they have hurled against the Apostolic See, will receive them with a heart of affection. . . . If they return, it must not be with the idea or hope that the Church of the Living God, the pillar and support of truth, will scrap its integrity and faith or tolerate their errors...
...frail, delicate, serious, Lord Halifax could read in the encyclical the defeat of a lifetime's labor. It had been his idea, as it was the idea of many English high-churchmen and laymen, that the Church of England, which does not recognize itself as protestant in the sense for example of Lutheran, Methodist, or Presbyterian Churches, might be ready to amalgamate itself with the Roman Church. Certainly, for the last century, some members of the Anglican Church have tended more and more to recognize certain Roman Catholic tenets. At the Lambeth Conference, in 1920, English clergymen stated their willingness...
...submit it to you with the idea that it may perhaps be of sufficient interest for you to make use of, and will make no comment beyond stating that the "B.B.C." referred to in the penultimate paragraph is, of course, the British Broadcasting Co. which has the sole right of broadcasting public entertainment programs from the various stations throughout Great Britain. Your very truly, George W. N. Riddle...