Word: latter-day
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...genealogical tree, his pupa-like spinning, out of a bowel-deep terror of extinction, pessimism's tight and tolerably comfortable cocoon. Irritating to some ears will be Author Tate's attempts, in many of his poems, to catch the tone of T. S. Eliot's latter-day concord of sourness and light. But in the presentation of his central themes, the Civil War and life's mortal idiocy, Poet Tate, verging in his later poems on the first-rate, speaks in his own tones...
...Mormon) Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, pioneer virtues are thrift, diligence, discipline. Last year a "security program" was launched to take 85,000 Mormons off Federal relief, to Mormon leaders a distasteful institution (TIME, June 8, 1936). Since then, jobs have been found for some 23,000 Mormons, the Church has taken over the support of 30,000. Most of the idle were given agricultural work and 24 big regional warehouses have been built to store produce which is the result of redoubled Mormon husbandry. In and around Salt Lake City, 125,000 Mormons were urged last...
...first time in a long-neglected corner of the vineyard, New England. In Boston last week arrived Dr. Carl Ferdinand Eyring, onetime physics professor at Brigham Young University, to be first president of the New England Mormon Mission. He found that some 3,000 New Englanders were already Latter-day Saints. President Eyring set up headquarters in a house in Cambridge, hired the old, staid Cantabrigia Club (women) for Sunday meetings. With him he brought 20 young missionaries to begin the work of evangelizing the new territory...
Penrod & Sam (Warner). Even the audience which did not read Booth Tarkington's Penrod stories when they were the same age as the protagonists will catch some of the backyard necromancy of their childhood in this latter-day version of a Penrod sequel. To the audience which is reading them now, the greatest picture ever made would come out second-best to Penrod & Sam if coupled with it on a double bill. The plot contains more Warner Bros, than Tarkington, but the liberties do not affect the characters which, in the persons of the amazing children with which Hollywood...
...Herr Lehar is also a businessman who runs a theatre in Vienna and takes seriously his affiliation with Rotary International. The great majority of his best scores were written more than a decade ago and this does not prevent him from selling them over & over along with inferior latter-day creations. That Frederika-a perfunctory, old-fashioned operetta about the life & loves of Goethe which was first produced seven years ago-does not come up to the stratospheric standards of such earlier Lehar work as The Merry Widow (1905), is a loss not only to J. J. Shubert...