Word: orthodox
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...being intelligent enough to take a line of his own. Mr. Sever takes after orthodox so-called intelligentsia in hating the radio, elk's teeth, white socks, camels, and above all, what passes in the middle-class moving picture for humour. Cinema humour is atavistic; it goes back to the primeval source--cruelty. And it gets results. While Emerson and Appleby with growing displeasure watched a pitiful creature fall down stairs and get hit over the head and make grimaces, a lady (term used by courtesy) next them was overcome with paroxysms of joy. Tears made little canyons down...
...Testament gives two slightly different versions of the Ten Command ments, EXODUS 20 : 1-17, and DEUTERONOMY 5 : 6-21. It has been a bitter problem collating and dividing these Laws. Jews follow the Talmud's order, Calvinistic and Eastern Orthodox churches Philo's, Roman Catholics and Lutherans St. Augustine...
...Free Thinkers failed to prove the validity of their case in court. Their efforts, however, give evidence that no matter how far men may get from the literal interpretation of Genesis, they must go much farther before they can cast off the bugaboos of bigotry and intolerance. An orthodox Free Thinker sounds like a paradox, but apparently he is a fact...
...rubbed mud and same into the wounds so that they would stand out prettily. "Nothing is too good for our boy," they probably said, as they dragged him around to the local tattoo expert, to have the Hand of Fatime, (for luck), tattooed on one cheek, and an extremely orthodox crescent on the other. Religion is not easily changed in North Africa...
...Mexican would point out that "the flock" includes in Roman Catholic computation hundreds of thousands of peasants who have only the vaguest religious concepts, and habitually confuse the Trinity with the native gods of old Mexico. Should "the flock" be pruned of all these semi-pagans the contribution per "orthodox" Roman Catholic would be found to have doubled many times. To Roman Catholics "The flock's the flock, and there...