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...ideal; its reality is in the future-and in heaven, where it is formed of "the blessed company of all faithful people." But this is not a comfortable concept to many U.S. Protestants, who, as practical, organization-minded men, would rather have the Church, like the Kingdom of Heaven, inhabit this earth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Church & the Churches | 3/26/1951 | See Source »

...husband and his spitfire stable-girl mistress (Tamara Geva). There, after the husband dies and leaves half the house to the wildcat, the widow lives on with her still. The spitfire's son, the widow's son, her son's son and a governess also inhabit the house where, between heart attacks and thunderstorms, the tying of children to chairs and the choking of adults on sofas, everyone dresses for dinner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Plays In Manhattan, Dec. 4, 1950 | 12/4/1950 | See Source »

Harvard men journeyed to Princeton this fall, and Yale came here, and six other colleges also came here in varying degrees. And aside from the few really disgruntled students who inhabit every college, everyone came away with great relief that he was where he was, and not at the other place...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hurry Up, Please . . . | 11/28/1950 | See Source »

Southern Exposure (by Owen Crump; produced by Margo Jones, Tad Adoue & Manning Gurian) begins as a barn-door-broad spoof of those who inhabit and those who inspect the mortgaged old mansions of Natchez. Leading chatelaine-and character-is Penelope Mayweather (Betty Greene Little), a spinster who when not fluttering like a bird is secretly drinking like a fish. After a while the play shifts to farcical romance between an engaged Natchez belle and an enraged Yankee writer whose book Natchez has banned. But the satire keeps on recurring with the monotonous regularity of a lone rider on a merry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Plays in Manhattan, Oct. 9, 1950 | 10/9/1950 | See Source »

...amateurs in last week's U.S.G.A. Public Links championship were the pick of a fierce breed of golfers who inhabit the nation's 1,800 public courses; they carry their own clubs, fight for fairway rights, and have little or no time to worry about the more genteel aspects of what is sometimes regarded as a genteel game. In their zest for the title, some of last week's competitors just missed beating their opponents over the head with mashie niblicks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Anybody's Open | 7/25/1949 | See Source »

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