Word: life
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with medicine and law. And last week in Ohio the State Supreme Court upheld licensed astrologers, but in a rather backhanded way. It grouped astrologers with other fortune-tellers under the definition: "one who pretends to a knowledge of futurity and foretells the events of one's life," and said that the old Ohio law prohibiting these practices without licenses is still valid. The decision was written by bearded Chief Justice Carrington T. Marshall and supported by four of the remaining six justices including famed benchwoman Mrs. Florence E. Allen...
These are four branches of Astrology: Natural, having to do with the efect of the planets on earthly climate, quakes, floods; Mundane, concerning prosperity, plagues, wars; Natal, how the arrangement of the stars at the moment of birth determines a person's character, physique, life work; Horary, concerning the propitiousness of the stars for (or against) playing the market, getting married, leaving town. The last two branches of astrology are most in demand today...
...young man of good family and good character with the proper eugenic background'' to be the father of her child. "There was nothing which approached promiscuity" in their relationship, she said. The young man, after performing his function as eugenic husband, quietly stepped out of her life. A fortnight ago at the Lying-in Hospital in Manhattan she gave birth to a daughter, whom she named Vera (truth). Last week an enterprising reporter of the New York World, unabashed by Mrs. Burnham's admonition ("This is not the sort of thing you would want...
...document springing from an obsolescent ecclesiasticism, a remote legacy of the imperial idea of ruling the Kingdom of Christ by the Imperialism of Caesar. ... I am a Protestant because of the Galilean Carpenter who was the best protestant of all. ... He dealt, not in creed and dogma, but in life and humanity. . . . Love will solve the problem of all the unnecessary debates and bickering hates among the churches. Christ has been crucified many times by ecclesiasticism...
...Procter, announced Chamber President Hutton, had been made an honorary member of the Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce for life, which some compared to a sort of municipal knighthood.? Mr. Procter had given $2,500,000 for medical research at the Cincinnati Children's Hospital (TIME...