Word: meek
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...result of the unwise writing of his predecessors, the dime novelists, and to some extent of his contemporaries, the scenario writers. These, together with the professional bravadoes who belonged to the Wild West rather than to the Old West, have made Carson, a very simple, almost meek man, into an entirely impossible character...
...Meek Mose. Prevalent opinions among the hordes that hurry to the theatre include the firm feeling that each Negro is a great actor. All you have to do is put a string of lines into his head, point out the stage and let him live the part. This theory, arising from the efficiency with which Negroes strut in musical shows, was crystallized when the Theatre Guild made its first furore of the season with Porgy, played by an uncanny troupe of colored folk. There were murmurs in the shrewd recesses of the Guild at the time that a good deal...
...summary is as follows: HARVARD AMHERST Wenner, r.f. l.g., Wilson Baldwin, Slocum, l.f. r.g., Walker, Meek Green, c. c., Harmon, Miller Barbee, Burns, Harper, r.g. l.f., Navin Hatch, l.g. r.f., Latham...
Commented The Nation, intellectual weekly: "Riches and power?and orders for shoe polish. There was once a man who talked differently. 'Blessed are the meek,' he said. 'Why take ye thought for raiment?' 'Ye cannot serve God and Mammon.' 'Go and sell all that thou hast, and give to the poor.' 'Verily I say unto you that a rich man shall hardly enter into the Kingdom of Heaven.' 'It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter into the Kingdom of God.' And in one terrible passage...
...Story * Metabel Adams walked over the hills from Early. It was the spring her father died. "Trembling and meek he stepped into Jordan's dark icy water, the cold tide froze him, and he came out again in Zion with a look of peace; he seemed to be saying humbly to the angels, 'I don't amount to much, but I feel friendly...