Word: john
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...distinguished firm of Jonathan Cape, Ltd.-appealed against suppression of The Well of Loneliness, before the Attorney General of Great Britain, Sir Thomas Inskip. National interest focused on the appeal because Miss Hall's book had received the indorsement of a petition to the Attorney General signed by John Drinkwater, Hugh Walpole, John Middleton Murray, Lytton Strachey, Arnold Bennett...
...long ago by a German war boat since Berlin is exceedingly friendly to Nanking, except for the fact that the disarmed German Republic has never had in Chinese waters a war boat potent enough to thunder a proper salute. A recent trifling difference between U. S. Minister to China John Van Antwerp MacMurray, and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang resulted in cancellation of fully perfected plans that a U. S. war boat should fire the first "big gun" salute since the U. S. officially "recognized" the Nationalists months ago (TIME, Aug. 6). The failure of U. S. guns to boom seems...
...Opinion," "Organized Religion," "The Press," "Music," "The Radio," "Chambers of Commerce," "The Demagogue," "The Political Party," and "Public Opinion," etc.-Professor Graves reprints articles by competent observers. Walter Lippmann, chief editorial writer for the New York World, is the most quoted man in the book. Others are Sigmund Freud, John Broadus Watson, Otto Hermann Kahn, Bruce Barton, Ivy Ledbetter Lee, Abbott Lawrence Lowell, Elihu Root, Charles Evans Hughes, Patrick Cardinal Hayes, Oswald Garrison Villard, Clinton Wallace (Mirrors) Gilbert, William Bennett Munro, and several dozen more...
...outstanding one in the anthem). Dark days come in the second movement dated for the Civil War. "I hear America singing" is the marking on the score and what Bloch hears he repeats-snatches of old Negro songs, of "Old Folks at Home," "Pop Goes the Weasel," "Hail Columbia," "John Brown's Body," the "Battle Cry of Freedom," "Tramp, Tramp, Tramp." There is conflict then driving the music on to another loud climax. The theme again is "America" but it is mournful and bleeding now until the third movement, "1926," takes it up again and syncopates it. Then comes...
Therefore John Davison Rockefeller Jr., generous donor to the 36-story Broadway Temple now being completed at Broadway and 174th Street, pleaded last week for skyscraper churches which would lift the glory of God as high as the glory of life insurance and stocks & bonds. Said he, at a banquet of Temple-building bankers: "We do not want the business world to look down on churches...