Word: meres
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...need wise, strong leadership and action, not mere words! Are the Great Powers satisfied that they have shown...
...when inscribing this oath (required of all Irish Free State Deputies), Mr. de Valera said severely to the oath-clerk, "I am not taking any oath or giving any promise of faithfulness to the King of England. ... I am putting my name here as a mere formality...
...people who still have such banknotes, the 181,115 disgruntled Germans who voted for Candidate Winter (even though he was in jail on a minor sentence last week), would almost certainly have voted for Old Paul if they had not voted for Prisoner Winter. Their votes, a mere handful in so large an election, would nevertheless have sufficed to re-elect the President. Since nobody was elected, Germans will vote again Sunday, April...
...Birney Smith: "Protestantism has suddenly become conscious of the inartistic quality of many phases of its portrayal of religion. . . . If Protestantism is worth preserving it can be preserved only as it shall be made as obviously dignified and worthy as Catholicism. But this dignifying of Protestantism cannot be a mere imitation. . . ." Poetry Society. Catholicism is well aware that it is "dignified and worthy." Like Author Ludwig Lewisohn (see p. 55) it knows that poems as well as masses save souls. There is in the U. S. a Catholic Writers Guild. Last year there was founded the Catholic Poetry Society...
EXPRESSION IN AMERICA-Ludwig Lewisohn-Harper ($4). W7hen scripture became only literature. Literatus Lewisohn avers, "it was necessary for literature to become scripture." Modern literati are no mere craftsmen, do not play the beaux to pretty Belles Lettres. They must be poets "whom the thoughtful and instructed modern reader seeks out to experience for him. to interpret for him, to illuminate and to guide him, to face for him the inscrutable. . . ." With such vicarious help, common-or-garden men, in order to climb heavenward, need only keep their glasses polished and read the scriptures as they come.* In his impressions...