Word: nobler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Behind the horn-rimmed spectacles and tousled head lies there a cooler mind, a more capable brain than reposes beneath the nobler brow of these who have gone before? Certainly those unfortunate head-holders who are loaded down with overhead in belt buckles and monogrammed suspender buttons can testify that the men of '38 are utterly impervious to even the most provocative of inducements...
...purely popular authors get more & more established, they feel it behooves them to justify their popularity by infusing their entertainment with a Message. American Beauty's Message: from the mixture in the U. S. melting pot of inbred aristocracy and peasant stock will come a new & nobler breed. But you do not have to pay attention to Edna Ferber's Message to enjoy her story...
...Religiosos (To the Religious-i. e., monks, nuns): "We now speak to you, sons and daughters of our love, who, eager for the nobler graces, by the pledge of your holiest vows and by a lifelong religious discipline, faithfully obey, not merely the commandments, but also the desires and the counsels of your Divine King and Spouse. You fill God's Church with the fragrance of your chastity, you glorify her by your contemplations, you support her by your prayers, you enrich her with your learning and knowledge, you beautify and perfect her from...
...printed a book that defies being cast into any of the ordinary categories of recently published books. It is a book about a religious subject, but it is not a religious book. Some might call it a mystery story, but it it written about a much nobler subject than the common mystery-murder story. It is a story about that which happened immediately following the death of Christ, written from a modern psychological viewpoint, and having elements of suspense injected into it. It stands alone among recent books...
...While the imperial Deity, seated on a throne and demanding worship and flattery is a myth, the Super-Self of our own nobler nature, the Hidden Dynamo within mankind, can and does lead man from primitive society to the State, to the Democracy, and on to that which does not yet appear...