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What finally brought the theater back to Washington was nothing loftier than the fact that the bottom had dropped out of burlesque at the old Gayety, so the management went legit. For the New Gayety's opening with a touring company of The Barretts of Wimpole Street, starring Susan Peters, honky-tonk Ninth Street bloomed with klieg lights and dinner-jacketed Congressmen and diplomats...
...gathered expectantly in Room 833 of the Tribune Tower. Outside the window they could see a shiny brass whistle, four feet high, ten inches in diameter, which until recently had graced the West Coast steamship Yale. Now Yaleman Bertie McCormick ('03) had acquired it for a new and loftier mission: to warn Chicagoland of an atomic-bomb raid. Before leaving for an Arizona vacation, the colonel had left orders for a test toot...
...middle-of-the-roader, Lecomte de Noüy, who was a brilliant scientist, adduced scientific proof that human life cannot have begun spontaneously, that there must be a Supreme Being. Since this evidence points to His being our Maker, why not attribute to Him capability for a loftier point of view than any of those possessed by man? Is it possible that He created him to love, and that the knowledge intelligent men of science have amassed is intended to be only a tool to that...
Paradoxically, this is due to the fact that TIME'S correspondent at Amsterdam brought to the assembly a preconception of what he loped for from it which was at variance with, and in one sense, loftier than, what either he or the delegates had a right to expect. He wanted a "Pentecost," that is, a visitation of the Holy Spirit like that described in Acts 2:7-11. The fact that no such spectacular miracle occurred does not necessarily mean that the Holy Spirit was not present. For the definitive Christian conception of the Holy Spirit is that...
...power and glory that was Britain and might be Britain still is not in these men. They seem too humble even for middleclass, easygoing Scarborough, and much too modest for its Grand Hotel. Yet these modest men indubitably believe themselves the architects of a greater Britain, followers of a loftier vision than Pitt or Disraeli or Churchill...