Word: loved
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...grueling itinerary during which he spoke before an estimated 750,000 people in 150 cities. About to sail for Oslo, Norway and the annual convention of the World Sunday School Association, he was to speak this week on a nationwide NBC hookup. His message: "I have learned to love the American people. . . . You have a wonderful future. . . . I ask your prayers for the maintenance of peace between this country and Japan. I bid farewell to you and I pray God's blessing upon...
...excitement credited much of the success of his latest tour to his sponsors, mostly liberal evangelical churchmen, who did able advance work in stirring up church interest wherever the little yellow man was booked. Before Kagawa had traveled very far, many people heard that his messages, mostly about "the love principle of Christ," were almost incomprehensible, delivered with a squeaky voice in a heavy Japanese accent. Nevertheless, out of sheer curiosity many a citizen obtained a free ticket to see the man who had been allowed in the U. S. through the intervention of President Roosevelt. Likewise ministers, whom...
...mother, Scarlett was a handsome, high-spirited, high-bosomed, green-eyed little devil. Living the artificial life of a plantation beauty, she was accomplished at taking other girls' beaux away from them, breaking up engagements, winning flattery from men by the time she was 15. She fell in love with shadowy Ashley Wilkes, a cultured, sensitive spirit among the robust, hard-riding plantation aristocrats, primarily because she could not get him to pay much attention to her. He was going to marry her friend Melanie, another thoughtful and isolated soul. Scarlett got Ashley alone at an all-day barbecue...
...Under President Peirce, Kenyon has drawn its 250 students largely from prosperous Episcopalian families, supported flourishing chapters of the swanker Greek letter fraternities rarely found on Midwestern campuses. Particularly proud are Kenyon-ites of the college's trim airport and two planes, the gift of Manhattan Lawyer Wilbur Love Cummings, Class...
...mounting debts and reduced income, the fits of temperament and moodiness in her children. His 30-year-old sister, Marianne, had made a complete wreck of her life. She had studied to be a singer, deliberately botched her first concert to spite her mother and her mother's love. She had rushed off to Norway to rest, rushed back to Holinge pursued by debts and scandals. Talented, bitter, hysterical, she stayed in her room, tormented herself and the family, thought of suicide. The Snyders did not own Holinge, which complicated Bengt's problem. Its owner was a distant...