Word: matthewes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mechanics Educational Society of America (independent) with "conduct equivalent to treason." The strike was a jurisdictional dispute between M.E.S.A. and the C.I.O.'s United Auto Workers; it had spread from a single small factory to 48 other war plants by order of M.E.S.A.'s energetic Matthew Smith...
...Cotty" was 13, his father became a London banking partner of Junius Spencer Morgan, father of J.P. the First. From 14 to 19, Cotty attended Cheltenham College, preparatory school, where he became "tall, strong as a horse, graceful." From there he went to Cambridge, where he read Punch, Dickens, Matthew Arnold, Tennyson and the law-and not much else. "There is a striking similarity between the Rector's humor and that of Punch in the days when he was in Britain," observes Ashburn. When Endicott graduated, he knew only that he wanted to be useful...
...since the death of Editor Edward J. O'Brien in 1941. The 30 stories in her 1944 collection (mostly written by relatively unknown authors) rate pretty high on common sense, low on imagination and passion. Most impressive: Of This Time, of That Place, by Biographer-Critic Lionel Trilling (Matthew Arnold; E. M. Forster), a Columbia University English instructor. Author Trilling's caustic, moving account of the clash between a kindly but red-taped professor and a brilliant but irrational student is calculated to make almost any pedagogue squirm...
...Benedictine monk, Dom Aelred Graham of Ampleforth Abbey, rushed to the Pope's defense: "His Holiness does no more than proclaim New Testament Christianity: see Matthew 5:44.* This was the message expounded from the higher level of the cross: see Luke 23:34.† That Mr. Herbert detects in this feebleness of mind sets one wondering! There come to remembrance some striking words of St. Paul very much to the point: see I Corinthians...
...Aelred Graham, the Pope, or anyone else to fling such texts at the British people and expect them to be followed literally as guides to conduct after five years of bloody war against a Satanic foe. And which texts are we to follow? What about Matthew 5:39-'Resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also'? Should we never have gone...