Word: lots
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...become a Y.W.C.A. worker. As such she was wooed by her impetuous, ambitious husband, who was then and for years afterward a passionate Christian, in the Old Testament, Cromwellian fighting sense. Today the Marshal's state of grace is a trifle uncertain. He has cast in his lot with the studiously non-Christian Chinese Nationalist Party...
...read Thoreau, Emerson and Whitman, Hugo, Dumas and Shakespeare. He remembers what he reads and lives by a lot of it. His god is one of Life and Laughter who belongs to no organized church...
Large bodies of the American clergy publish their recurrent opinion that the college men of today are an irreligious lot. College men are indifferent, they say, to the message of the Church; they are unappreciative of the value of religious thought. Not infrequently they scoff at these things, like the bad boys at Elisha; surely the bears will come and eat them...
...Huddleston of Alabama, the South's only radical. A thin little wisp of a man who wears slippers in his office. He is given to vast and vociferous indignations. He is a fiery speechmaker. Pallid, drawn, hungry-looking, though personally wealthy. Professionally a lawyer who early threw his lot in with employes against employers in Birmingham...
...Burbank, Calif., rain seeped through the roof of the arsenal on the First National lot, saturated smoke bombs causing a chemical reaction that set off the dynamite, shells, grenades, stored there for mimic warfare. A beaver board French village outside, three workmen, and $40,000 worth of equipment blew up fanwise without hurting Corinne Griffith and 40 actors and actresses at work nearby...