Word: masses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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DOROTHY M. CHASE Sharon, Mass...
Editor-in-chief of Liberty and adviser to many another of the lucrative, mass-appealing, Macfadden Magazines* is a remarkable character named Charles Fulton Oursler. A former law clerk and Baltimore reporter, Mr. Oursler has written a successful melodrama (The Spider), a number of novels, a series of detective stories, and a book on travel and religion called A Skeptic in the Holy Land. Mr. Oursler is a capable prestidigitator and, say some, an expert ventriloquist. Tweed-coated, narrow-chinned, high of brow, Mr. Oursler has a vaguely ministerial appearance. This facile and versatile literary man does his writing...
...Herbert L. Matthews from Madrid, "would not be surprised six months hence to see himself seated before the same typewriter in the same place writing a summary of the first year of the war. . . . All Europe has been drawn into the conflict and there has been a mass uprising more significant than anything since the Russian proletariat rose in 1917. . . . The hatred which has been aroused on both sides is indescribable. ... It is a question whether France and England can keep out indefinitely If those countries join in to help Madrid there will be a European war; if they...
...Nagypal, 21, a student at the Royal Hungarian Franz Liszt Academy of Music. Thirty-three-year-old Viktor Vaszy directs the chorus. He also directs the Budapest Symphony Orchestra and is known in Hungary as a composer of distinction. He likes to boast of the time the chorus sang Mass with Pope Pius XI during Holy Year (1925). The Pope was so pleased that he gave them a large gold cross and special diplomas. Two years later the students of Rome University got so excited over them that they founded a similar organization at Rome...
...Christ Church Episcopal Cathedral, high on a knoll overlooking Springfield, Mass., one day last week gathered seven Episcopal bishops, their clergy and many a rich and cultivated worshiper. The grey-haired, 86-year-old retired Bishop of Massachusetts mounted the pulpit, preached on "The Quickening of the Spirit." Almost abruptly terminating his sermon, the oldster fixed his gaze upon a tall, younger man sitting at a table in the centre aisle. "My son!" said he, "my father used to say to me again and again, 'No man has ever been blessed throughout life as I have been...