Word: orthodox
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...usual boy-&-girl business in her small-town set. She went to a small Eastern college, splashed seriously, busily, happily as its Biggest Frog. There she was tempted from her narrow way by a liberal-minded professor, who tried to seduce her but succeeded only in destroying her orthodox faith. After graduation Ann rolled up her sleeves, got into the woman-suffrage fight. From that point on she had few breathing spells. While she was laboring mightily at social settlement work in Manhattan she let herself fall in love with a worthless neurotic. Of him she was soon rid, suffering...
...Tsar Boris' devoutly Catholic mother-in-law, Queen Elena of Italy, was rushing to Sofia in her gilded baroque private car caused His Majesty to order a rush-baptism of the babe, Maria Louise, hastily performed in the Palace Chapel by Archbishop Stefan according to Bulgaria's Orthodox rite. Prince Cyril, the Tsar's Catholic brother, met Queen Elena at the frontier, convinced her that a Catholic baptism would have been impossible in view of Bulgarian public opinion. At the Sofia station Queen Elena embraced Tsar Boris, whatever she may think of him. In Rome a spokesman...
...extraordinary eminence of the Waldorf meeting's sponsors would have been a surprise. On the reception committee were not only such conservative and ultra-socialite names as Mr. & Mrs. Frederic William Rhinelander, Mr. & Mrs. Herbert Livingston Satterlee and Mr. & Mrs. William Fellowes Morgan, but also the most orthodox churchmen such as Bishop William T. Manning, John R. Mott, Princeton's Joseph Ross Stevenson. To be sure some of the namees were themselves surprised...
...Congregational Church. All eleven had been slaves, eaten hominy and bacon breakfasts in rude, smoky cabins, worked all day in cottonfields, sung spirituals in the light of the moon around their cabin doors. But they sang no spirituals that night in Cincinnati. Spirituals were slave songs. Accordingly they sang orthodox hymns and temperance pieces which made less impression on the audience than the rusty, ill-fitting suits the men wore and the women's dresses so ludicrously assorted that Jennie Jackson, 19, was taken to be the mother of Eliza Walker...
...continue your use of truthfully descriptive words about those whom you present in TIME. . . . I respect President-elect Roosevelt the more because he has not allowed physical difficulties to daunt him. . . . ELEANOR MARE Chicago, Ill. Sirs: Suppose a few of the 400,000 do wish you to be more orthodox - orthodox-i.e, colorless - in your write ups. Don't do it. In the case of the President-elect your out spoken frankness is less pointed than the prevailing skeleton-in -the -cupboard attitude. Achievement is enhanced by physical handicap. Along with your range and terseness your great asset...