Word: orthodox
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Moreover the Book of Ecclesiasticus, which many persons accept as orthodox, bids us "desire not a multitude of unprofitable children". Equally frequent are the appeals of the Biblical story of Onan and to the teachings of St. Paul on the purpose of marriage, and neither of these references supports the contentions made. Onan was slain because he did not obey the Levirate Law commanding him to raise up seed to his brother. The purpose given by Paul in Chapter VII of the First Book of Corinthians for the institution of Christian marriage is to avoid promiscuity. Nothing whatever is said...
...same day that Dr. Barnes threatened to move his collection to Manhattan, the Philadelphia city council offered to give Joseph E. Widener a plot of ground on which to build a museum to house his art collection as a gift to the nation. The Widener collection is extensive, valuable, orthodox...
...went, heard, were unimpressed, made no demonstration at all. The general attitude was one of puzzled indifference to a sensation-seeker. To many, this reception seemed unfair. Composer Antheil knows the classics, admires Beethoven and Handel above all others, appreciates them intelligently. He is an accomplished musician himself on orthodox instruments. His departures, though radical, are too sincere to be dismissed with a sniff for the showoff. He is, first of all, an earnest young man. Had Manhattan waxed indignant, as did Paris when the mistake was made of facing the propeller toward the audience and thereby nearly blasting them...
Said Composer Converse, whose orthodox repute is established: "I did it just for fun," acknowledging that "Flivver 10,000,000" had been inspired by Composer Arthur Honegger's "Pacific 231," serious-minded interpretation of a locomotive plowing through the Rocky Mountains...
Other Colleges. Among the 100 colleges and universities, with students totaling 36,000, to which were submitted these nine questions, Dartmouth stood forth as the least orthodox. In the grand total for the quiz, 87% of all answers were found to be "Yes." Such colleges as Providence, Pacific Union, Converse, Bridgewater, Carthage, Millsaps, Woffard, Shorter, Wheaton voted higher than 97% orthodox. But, such universities as Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Cornell, Columbia, Pennsylvania, Brown, Chicago, Illinois, California, Stanford were not questioned by the International Advertising Association. Of the women's colleges, Wellesley was least orthodox with a vote of 75% affirmative...