Word: manly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rate last week, and in Manhattan it had been anticipated for some weeks that Dr. Schacht would, nay must, take this step.* In Paris, however, angry editors rose above common sense, charged that the lowering of the rate last January was a "plot," even charged that the "Iron Man" would rather see the mark crash down to infinitesimal value a second time?thus bankrupting the Fatherland?than agree to pay the Allies what Germany owes...
...desire tonight, and I am sure it is yours also ? " began Author Barrie when called upon by Major Astor, "my one desire is to be nice to Mr. Baldwin. It is not his fault that he is a Worcestershire man ? after all Shakespeare came very near being a Worcestershire man, but his mother slipped across into Warwickshire to give the boy a chance. How hard on me it is to make a speech when I know the Prime Minister would far rather I told him a detective story...
...Each village in the colony has its Schultz, or head man," explained Mennonite Schwartzenstruber, "and the colony's affairs as a whole are regulated either by a council of the Schultzen or by a mass meeting of the whole community which now numbers 1,368 adults...
...baptism may be performed only on the believer and recognized no authority except the Bible and one's enlightened conscience. During the 16th and 17th centuries, persecution of the Mennonites for such subversion doctrines was carried on in several European countries to the extreme of exterminating every Mennonite man, woman, and child who could be caught. Gradually, however the persistence of the sect triumphed, and in 1792 the won exemption from military service in France, though Napoleon pressed then into hospital service during his campaigns. One branch of the Mennnonites holds that excommunication of husband or wife dissolves...
Marry the Man. Playwright Jean Archibald's comedy has a sexy headstart in its subject, companionate marriage, but it soon loses ground and does not come in a winner. Mollie Jeffries thinks that she and her Gregory will always enjoy a paradoxical combination of freedom and affection. But Gregory nobly yearns for the stabilizing responsibilities of true matrimony. Therefore he announces his forthcoming marriage to a fictitious woman. Mollie is shocked, furious, broken. But while the chimes are ringing for Gregory's marriage he appears in a top hat, gaily tells Mollie of his ruse and whisks...