Word: infidelism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...American scholar for whom I have great respect, thought he has long been forgotten, has well said: The young man who is an enthusiastic student of Plato can never be a sciolist in regard to education, a quack in literature, a demagogue in politics, or an infidel in religion...
...Patriarch of Jerusalem will acknowledge the service by erecting a bronze memorial near one of the sacred spots. For example, Sunday School children of Philadelphia hope to have a tablet in the Church of the Nativity if the money which they collect can save this church from the infidel usurer...
...Male singers only" has been its rule. The sopranos and contraltos were not the voices of boys; they were " castrati "-eunuchs imported from infidel lands. More recently, special instruction has been employed to retain the soprano and contralto tones of boys after the natural break in the voice. The choir now consists of 34 men and 20 boys. All wear white surplices over cassocks of purple and scarlet...
...prevented me from paying court to 'other eligible and marriageable ladies.' " Dr. Henry Van Dyke, former Minister to the Netherlands: "A North Carolina divine, reading a sermon of mine preached in New York, offered me $1,000 if I ' or any other Biblical infidel' will produce one single fact proving the materialistic evolution of man out of a lower order of species." Isadora Duncan, dancer: "I denied a report that my husband, Serge Essenin, sympathizes with the French Royalists. Said I: ' Serge is a poet. And poets are too lofty in their thoughts and ideals...