Word: life
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...farsightedness and the breadth of vision that brought about such a step is one of the most encouraging aspects of contemporary affairs. In them two fundamental elements of human life, long opposed to one another, have been wedded. Each should benefit from the new association...
...Chamber. Candlemaker William Procter was so honored in 1880 because he (with Soapmaker James Gamble) had founded a thriving soap industry at Cincinnati in 1837, also because he had battled for full weight in each package of merchandise. In 1899, his son William A. Procter received his life membership because he was first president of the incorporated Procter & Gamble Co. Knighthood of a Procter in 1928 concerned science and philanthropy more, soap less...
...stirred by it hasten to see Mr. Lawson's latest. In this one they were disappointed; Mr. Lawson's modern manner has sent his play flying in every direction at once. It is in 21 scenes, some of them in Thibet. It purports to be a satire on modern life. There are capitalists, lamas, undertakers, English generals, prostitutes, Japs. Mr. Lawson jumbles them bitterly, bewilderingly...
...Significance. The life of Jesus Christ is read most often in the biographies that four men wrote after his death.* Three of these?the "gospels" of Matthew, Mark, and Luke?obviously derive in part from the same sources, in part from each other. The history written by John is a different story, leaving out much fact that is in the others, adding much theology that they lack. There are other recountals of the life of God's son; they have, all taken together, enough contradictions to make their corroborations doubtful. The purpose of the biographies of Christ that have been...
...illustrators of department store advertisements to draw countless long necked and apparently under-nourished grande dames; for H. T. P. to polish off some terse enigmatic quips surmounted by the conventional H. T. P. headlines; for music stores to haul out dusty liberties; for discussions of the life and times of Mary Garden; and, lastly, for all good dancing men to come to the aid of the party...