Word: looms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...when he wrote The Loom of Youth, Alec Waugh was hailed as a promising young writer. All through his 20s he heard the cry repeated. When his younger, sprightlier brother Evelyn (Vile Bodies, Decline and Fall) achieved immediate and continued success, reviewers had not tired of telling readers to watch Alec. Last week, with his thirty-first book, Going Their Own Ways (Farrar & Rinehart $2.50), 40-year-old Alec Waugh was i promising writer still. But it had long been obvious that he would never be as good as his model, John Galsworthy...
...Committee on the State of the Church, headed by President John Alexander Mackay of Princeton Theological Seminary. Critical of present-day church life ("smug and complacent"), the report said: "The churches as we know them are at a great disadvantage in the new spiritual conflict that begins to loom before us. . . ." Of current preaching: "Multitudes who are aware of moral weakness and realize their sinful enmeshment in situations they cannot change are being goaded to despair by moralistic sermons...
...danger of war did not loom as it loomed in 1915, but press, pulpit and meeting house were the scenes of spontaneous outbursts. As Mary Pickford quaintly put it, "I don't know what our dear Lord Jesus would think if he were to come back to earth today and see what his Christian babies are doing." And citizens of White Plains, N. Y. called on Charles A. Lindbergh and Henry Ford to return medals they lately accepted from Germany...
Pictures of the Mighty I AM Presence, showing two figures, the upper one of which emits rays of light, loom large in the cult's meditative meetings. Such pictures, garishly colored, may cost the faithful as much as $15. Originally...
with usura, sin against nature, is thy bread ever more of stale rags is thy bread dry as paper . . . Usura rusteth the chisel It rusteth the craft and the craftsman It gnaweth the thread in the loom None learneth to weave gold in her pattern ; Azure hath a canker by usura; cramoisi...