Word: masses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Stresemann Retorts. Foreign Minister Stresemann ascended the Reichstag Tribune, delivered the Cabinet's rebuke to Il Benito with ponderous almost unemotional thoroughness: "The German Government must decline to reply to Premier Mussolini in a tone which is better suited to mass meetings than to diplomatic conversation with other nations...
...mass to the best and most beautiful church in all the world. Go to the Cathedral of St. John the Divine. When you enter that great house of prayer, then pray that the kingdom of God will be established there...
...Pittsfield, Mass., it is proposed to buy a house built many years ago by Thomas Gold, whose granddaughter married Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, who lived and wrote there during several summers, and an adjoining house, built in 1820, in which Oliver Wendell Holmes, Henry Ward Beecher and Fanny Kemble were frequent guests. The town not only proposes to buy the houses but to raze them and erect a modern high school. One thousand members of indignant front families protested last week against the design, and the Rev. Dr. Paul Revere Frothingham, noted Unitarian divine, ejaculated: "I am horrified by the sacrilege...
Then both sides retired from Philadelphia, the scene of negotiations, and reopened their "propaganda works." The mine leaders arranged mass meetings to strengthen the morale of their followers. The operators turned to print and ink to try to induce the miners to repudiate their leaders...
From the platform beside Dr. James L. Gordon, pastor of the church, and Dr. Frederick W. Clampett, formerly of Trinity Episcopal Church in San Francisco, Mr. Burbank smiled benignly down at the mass of men and women before him, their warmly sympathetic faces turned towards him. As he commenced to read, his high-bridged nose took on a stern aquilinity; the lines on his forehead and about his lips grew deeper. From time to time he looked up from his manuscript and down among his audience at a person here, a person there. Over such would pass first a qualm...