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...Eisenach, Germany, last year, was the unification of Lutherans from every country. The second result became apparent last week when a statement of the Eisenach position of theology was published in the U. S. The statement sharply distinguishes between Lutherans and all other Protestant denominations, and denounces every jot and tittle of modernism...
...power in Germany will remain precisely where it was during the last Government, i. e., in the hands of Stresemann, Jarres and General von Seeckt, Commander-in-Chief of the Reichwehr. It follows as an unavoidable corollary that the policy of the present Government will not be changed one jot or tittle...
Concentrating on the conversation -which is steadily diverting and occasionally dazzling-one is led to suspect that Mr. Maugham, retiring after a particularly amusing dinner party, stopped Jong enough between his collar and his braces to jot down the smartest of the evening's causerie. On second thought, the play is altogether too smoothly starched for that. Mr. Maugham must have written it in a full dress suit...
...securely rooted. It appears that all good Spaniards went to bed one night only to awaken next morning to find that a revolution had taken place, apparently without resistance and without bloodshed. Everyone accepted the new Government somewhat sheepishly, and the economic life of the country was undisturbed one jot or tittle...
When in the United States in 1921, he walked about jauntily and his many wounds did not seem to bother him one jot or tittle. He says that to be a successful scout pilot a man must have " eyes all around his head...