Word: loved
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Once a Year," is a book written for one class of people, and one class only for those in whose hearts lives the love of Christmas for its own sake. To those few who do not have this love, to those for whom the lighted shop windows decorated with holly and red ribbon hold no thrill, the pungent odor of the Christmas trees no memories, and the clear, sweet sound of the Christmas carols no dreams, these stories will mean little they will be merely well-written sentimentality...
Shakyamuni Buddha, the founder of Buddhism, was an Indian prince who lived in the sixth century B. C. At an early age his meditations led him to the conclusion that a life of renunciation and high thought was preferable to the delights of home and love. He regarded the charm of wealth and power as nothing but illusions, and left his father's palace in order to become a wandering ascetic. After many years of reclusion and concentrated thinking he began teaching his system of salvation which would deliver all living beings from sin and suffering. He taught that...
...Indian Buddhist missionaries who went to preach their doctrine in foreign lands could not always overcome the love of their converts for certain native, non-Indian, divinities. The new members of the Buddhist community could not forget some of the gods worshipped by their ancestors for many generations, and means had to be found to reconcile the new faith with such deep-rooted sympathies...
...know Author Arthur Caesar, on whose drama this picture is :based, say he is a radical and a pacifist, a definition which makes it hard to understand why Mr. Caesar should have made Napoleon appear a jolly general whose devotion to his country is rivalled only by his love for his wife, Josephine. But regardless of whether or not Mr. Caesar has pilloried his own ideas and regardless of what you think of Napoleon you can understand the predicament of a barber who, burning with hatred of his master, finds himself passing a sharp razor over the sallow, imperial throat...
Remarried. Louis Untermeyer, Manhattan poet; to Jean Starr Untermeyer, Manhattan poetess. In 1926 Poet Untermeyer divorced Poetess Starr to marry Poetess Virginia Moore. Said Poet Untermeyer: "I remarried my first wife because I usually love...