Word: nones
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Events in U. S. shipping circles last week recalled the situation in the old nursery rhyme that begins "Baa, baa, black sheep, have you any wool?" It will be recalled that the black sheep had three bags full, one for the master, one for the dame, but none for the little boy that lived down the lane. In last week's modernization of Mother Goose, the U. S. Post Office and the U. S. Shipping Board were accused of being the black sheep. The wool-bags were mailbags, and the Cunard Line was the little boy who got nothing...
...these little points Editor Renaud was sharp in retort. "It's absurd to think I have any religious prejudice. I have none. I was bred a Unitarian, but belong to no church. As for the Germans, yes, during the war I was against Germany. I was a loyal American. But since then I've held no animus. And I did vote for Hoover. But if Mr. Pulitzer were hiring a managing editor on account of his vote, I expect he wouldn't have hired...
Comfortable Romanovs. Asked how many of the Imperial Family are safely out of Russia and in comfortable circumstances, the Grand Duke Alexander exclaimed: "Comfortable! We are none of us comfortable! But I understand you-perhaps there are 30 of us who are what you call 'in comfortable circumstances.' There is my wife and I have six children.* Perhaps there are a few more than 30 of the Imperial Family who have enough to buy the few things we want. I write books, and now I lecture. I teach not a religion but Spirituality that is in all religions...
Eugene O'Neill, playwright, big-mystery-man of Shanghai, Honolulu, South Sea Islands, South Pole, Manila, Rapallo, Manhattan, Cape Cod and points north, east, south & west, has confessed and proven that he is none other than himself. It all happened this way. Playwright O'Neill has visited, been rumored to have visited, or said he was going to visit the above places. Actually, he left Shanghai, China, a fortnight ago, when snoops and gossips annoyed him (TIME, Dec. 24). Last week, he turned up in Manila, Philippine Islands, under the name of "The Rev. William O'Brien...
Cardinal O'Connell is a scholar, a great organizer,* a most understanding man. None knows better than he that, while his Church is the largest single religious unit in the U.S., the combined Protestant bodies are far more numerous...