Word: meek
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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itself thinks goodness what is meek...
Many a Palestine site is shared among two or more religious sects. The most cherished one, the Holy Sepulchre (of Christ) is tended by Franciscan monks but, by old tradition, has Mohammedan doorkeepers, who used calmly to lock in the meek monks every night. What dismayed Editor Morrison and other members of his cruise was that the worst charlatanry was exhibited not by dragoman guides but by Greek and Roman priests, in charge of holy spots whence their Churches derive substantial revenue. It was bad enough, wrote Dr. Morrison, that after 20 centuries and repeated destructive battles in Palestine...
...referendum held in Pennsylvania, Connecticut and Ohio, tobacco-growers who do not sign contracts are liable to a 33⅔% tax on the sale price of their crop. Other Mennonite farmers have therefore signed. But not the Amishmen, despite the fact that a tenet of their religion requires meek obedience to the law of the land. Last week AAA officials in Washington were perplexed over the matter, finally decided that the thing to do was to have Congress amend the Tobacco Control Act exempting the Amishmen as "conscientious objectors...
...MONKEYS HAVE No TAILS in ZAMBOANGA - Capt. S. P. Meek - Morrow ($2). Soldier stories of tropical U. S. Army posts; second-rate Kiplingesque...
...mistakes him for Jones-are brilliantly used to make the doings of little Jones the more strange, heroic, touching and preposterous. In his dual rôle, as Jones and Mannion, Edward G. Robinson gives his best performance since Little Caesar. Good shot: the mean, mysterious little man (Donald Meek) who first tells the police to arrest Jones, trying to collect the reward for capturing Mannion...