Word: mote
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hats off to professional baseball's czar for removing Brooklyn's "Mote" from the Public...
Bertrand Russell is a rationalist, a materialist, a devotee of science (he is one of the greatest of living mathematicians). To him science is truth. Religion is a mote that does not trouble but tickles the mind's eye. Faith moves him to irony, not reverence. Some readers may feel that many of the philosophers whose systems he expounds disprove the connection between political and social conditions that he postulates. But few would deny that for laymen A History of Western Philosophy is a highly readable introduction to a difficult subject...
Before trying to cast out Catholicism's mote, Protestantism should consider the beam in its own eye. So says the Roman Catholic Our Sunday Visitor, in an unsigned article entitled "Why Protestantism Is Losing Ground...
When you hear such expressions as "So mote it be" (signifying approval); "Called from labor to refreshment": "Take due notice and govern yourselves accordingly"; and that gem that Blackstone loved and quoted in his Commentaries, "From a time whence the memory of man runneth not to the contrary"; you may well know that the persons who use them are members of "That Ancient and Honorable Institution of Freemasons that has outlived the fortunes of kings and the mutations of empires...
Janie's father (Edward Arnold), who publishes the town paper, writes a blast about youth's pitfalls, but while his wife (Ann Harding) and his best friend (Robert Benchley) demur, the mote in his own eye grows to beam size. Janie, one night when the family is out, arranges to vibrate with Pvt. Lawrence in the privacy of her home. Thanks to Scooper, who is mad with jealousy, and to her little sister Elspeth (Clare Foley) who combines the less endearing features of a stool pigeon, a blackmailer and the Marquis de Sade, they get no privacy...