Word: move
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...whole move is reported to be indirectly the work of young business men who complained about the late hours of metropolitan night life. Dancing on a crowded floor through the wee small hours of the morning may prepare one for the intricacy of the subway rush, but the vim, vigor, and vitality necessary to close on a million dollar contract with a Chicago potentate comes by a slightly different route. As for the girls, they are on record as merely saying...
...when 50 or 60 members of the various representative organizations gathered at Cedar Hill for a week-end discussion of practical problems that arose within the University. It was this conference that ultimately led to the sweeping reorganization of the Brooks House, that is felt in the present new move...
...gambit of the Christian Science Parent Church was to charge that Mrs. Mary Baker Glover Eddy used anesthetics. It was a familiar move and the Christian Science Mother (Boston) Church quietly answered that Mrs. Eddy did not "at any time after she became a Christian Scientist either use a drug or allow one to be used for her except as she employed in a few instances an anesthetic for the purpose of temporary relief from extreme pain." (TIME...
There the chess-like battle which began again this winter between the Mother Church and the Parent Church, insurgent offspring, rested until last week. Then the Parent Church moved again. It was not a checkmate. But it was a startling, troubling move...
Last week the Mother Church's answering move was to say that the parallels "merely indicated her [Mrs. Eddy's] familiarity with the writings of great men . . . Mrs. Eddy has been accused many times. . . . Hers [Mrs. Annie C. Bill's] is a small church while we have 2,300 branches...