Word: loves
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Father Divine refuses all money in every way. People by the thousands have tried to give him money, for the benefits they have received by and from his teaching and his wonderful ministry of love, yet he positively refuses all money...
...belong as a race to the "white" and still in God there is no color, and in Father Divine's meetings, you will discover that wonderful spirit of love and tolerance and color is never spoken...
PRESENTING LILY MARS-Booth Tarkington-Doubleday, Doran ($2.50). Author Tarkington's memory, straying fondly over his own early love for the stage, has lingered long enough to inspire a sentimental romance about the U. S. theatre some 20 years ago. Presenting Lily Mars concerns a Southern smalltown girl whose untutored genius as an actress the story never manages to make remotely plausible. Flirtatious Lily had never gone further than high school lessons in elocution, consequently enjoyed a fixed conviction that she was destined for high success on the New York stage. Her conviction is stubbornly shared by her down...
...finally took to visiting him every day and reading aloud from heart-softening philosophical books. Chivalrous Mr. Ganson stood it quite a long time, then went to John and asked him to call Nina off. But by that time the mischief was done: heartless Mr. Ganson had fallen in love with her. When Nina discovered how much too well she had succeeded, she wept, cheered up. went away, leaving John, Mr. Ganson and Dorchester repining...
...good hater, Butler never hesitates to call names or mention them. There was little love lost between himself and former Secretary of the Navy Charles Francis Adams. Once when the Secretary was inspecting Quantico, which Butler took pride in believing was the "finest post in the U. S.," Adams humphed at everything he saw, finally pointed to a stadium Butler was building for his men, snorted: "That's one of your damned follies." Last big row in which Butler was the central figure came in 1929, when he was arrested and ordered court-martialed for retailing an anecdote...