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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Optimist International is a glad-hand organization of "big brothers" (grown men) devoted informally to grinning horseplay, formally to welfare work among boys. It is called "International" because some members live in Canada...
...generation makes me proud of them. They are in love with life. They are keenly interested in their fellow beings. They seek causes rather than fundamentals. They freely discuss sex morality. They try experiments, often to the horror of their parents-but here is the chief point, 'they live by what they think is right,' not by code. And the thing which is encouraging is that more and more a similar attitude may be seen in the Church. It is getting away from precept and code, from 'the letter which killeth to the spirit which giveth life...
...bishops of the Church in selecting me for the post of bishop of the Missionary District of Wyoming has received serious and prayerful consideration. It has, I confess, brought back to me many happy and sacred memories of the nearly 20 years during which I was permitted to live and work among the people of the West, for whom I have a deep affection, and among whom I number many of my dearest friends. . . . While I feel all this very deeply, and while I appreciate the expression of confidence and esteem on the part of the bishops of the Church...
...Cunningham puts his patients into shut rooms where air pressure of 10 to 50 pounds a square inch more than ordinary is maintained and keeps them there for from a few hours to a month. Some patients merely spend their nights in the tank treatment rooms; others live and sleep in them. The rooms resemble, except for their fine appointments, the air locks used in excavating tunnels...
...Significance. Author Jameson contradicts the conceit which makes many women writers concentrate on the opposite sex. Her best characters have all been women. Her themes, it is true, often concern women doing men's work, organizing their lives toward a new freedom. The Lovely Ship in manner bears some resemblance to the writings of Joseph Hergesheimer, but Miss Jameson is more interested in making her people live than in describing ten-course dinners. Her performance in this book is one of almost pure perfection. An intention beautifully realized excuses an occasional prolixity. An infrequent weakness is overbalanced by Miss...