Word: mortalities
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...first act discovers Elmer Gantry, newly ordained and already eloquent in the jargon of eternal love and mortal lust, laying siege to little Lulu Bains, daughter of a deacon. Having seduced her, he is threatened with a wedding. But Elmer Gantry prays to God: "Show me some way out of this marriage, for Christ's sake, Amen." Sneering at his feeble victim, he escapes the nuptials by stamping out of the ministry to become a salesman of plows...
...MORTAL STAB TO AUSTRIA!! screamed virtually every newspaper in Vienna, except the Reichspost, circumspect Roman Catholic organ of tall, stern, stoop-shouldered, beak-nosed Monsignor Ignaz Seipel, Chancellor of Austria...
...Austrians!! I say that this inscription is a mortal stab at Austrian pride! Not we but they are barbarians...
Often enough in the past,, the annual General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S. A. has been an unfortunate uproar concerned with such things as how a god can have a mortal father. Fundamentalists have blown and stamped, Modernists have scoffed and reasoned, Moderates have explained and pleaded. This year, the meeting in Tulsa, Okla., had a minimum of excursions and alarms. The Fundamentalists were apparently in sufficient majority to achieve victory in the things which lay nearest their hearts and Bibles; they could not, however, expect to work their wills upon every issue. They...
...spin a worthy tale of peasant simplicities and spectral horrors. Dreary and revengeful, General Lowenskold's ghost hovered near the priceless ring that had been stolen from his tomb. The unhappy thief suffered?his barns burned down, his wife was drowned?but he dared not confess looting a grave, mortal offense. In time, the jewel of ill wake passed with its spectral guardian through unwitting, but nevertheless harassed, owners to the very descendants of Lowenskold. Far from treating his heirs more kindly, the ghostly grandsire bedevilled the son of the house with a wasting disease. But for a lovelorn governess...