Word: masses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Politicians opined that M. Painlevé is shouldering such a crushing mass of difficulties that his worst enemies are not anxious for the honor of supplanting him as Premier. In such circumstances his apparently "unworkable" majority of 32 may "work" longer than seems possible at first glance...
...Century." While the Episcopal Church recognizes but two sacraments, the Catholic Episcopalians insist upon seven-the seven-pointed lights in the seven-branched candlestick of Rome. Confession is obligatory. Stoups for Holy Water have recently been installed in Anglo-Catholic parishes in Manhattan. Holy communion is spoken of as "mass"; indeed, a "Solemn High Mass" was the phrase with which an official handbook described the service for which the members of the congress gathered upon the second day of their meeting. It was aptly chosen...
...service that followed differed in no particular from a Roman High-Mass except that it was sung in English. At the moment when the bread and wine were consecrated, a gong rang and the kneeling congregation intoned "Blessed, praised and adored forevermore be Jesus Christ on his throne of glory." Every session of the congress began with an "Ave Maria." The favorite hymn was one ending with the refrain, "Hail, Mary, full of grace." Rosaries, crucifixes and sacred images were offered for sale to the members. During the three days of sessions a number of eminent churchmen spoke, among them...
...manual-laboring friends. Frau Zwenge sells sheet music against her husband's will. With the years this business prospers, dislodges him from his workbench, drives him into a corner of her store. It is the same with his old friends. The cigarmaker's sons, the baker's, install machinery. Mass production, money, is the pulse of the city. There are immigrants by the thousand to buy, to push the older immigrants up the social and economic scale...
...Chamber of Commerce is correct in the assumption that the college degrees of their members do not qualify them to talk intelligently. Even famous scholars sometimes find difficulty in expressing their opinions in public Doubly hard must it be for the mass of college men, who later turn into the mass of business men, to express themselves. During their college course, their ingenuity displayed itself chiefly in concealing a lack of knowledge. No small wonder they never learned how to present ideas of their...