Word: orthodox
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Stocks rose sharply on Australian exchanges at news of the election. In London the orthodox thing to say became, "Thank goodness, they've come to their senses down under. Now the Aussies will pitch Labor out just as we did, and a jolly good...
...Bernard Shaw. Death came for Frank Harris last August. He had corrected only the first proofs of his last book, leaving Shaw to make the final corrections: "quite the oddest job'' Shaw had ever had to do. For Bernard Shaw is neither an authorized nor an orthodox biography;† a lesser man than Shaw might well have considered it a personal attack. Shaw did his odd job, corrected some facts; but "all the criticisms, jibes, explosions of passing ill humor, and condemnations have been piously preserved...
...religion" as an implement of education. Had the minds of Edison, Franklin, Burbank and thousands of other original thinkers been sufficiently crippled by belief in and reliance on "divine power" and "life after death," they would have passed to the limbo of unaccomplishment with the rest of the orthodox millions...
While Storrs snored in his big bed in Government House, in the inland capital of Nicosia, chattering Greeks (who never seem to go to bed) worked themselves up to riot. Some were inflamed by Orthodox priests who told of a "fiery cross" raised against British rule on the heights of Limassol two nights before. According to the priests, the Orthodox Patriarch of Cyprus (who jealously guards his 1,000-year-old right to sign his name in red ink) had proclaimed the end of British rule and the union of Cyprus with Greece "because the people will...
Episcopalians, 1112; Jewish, 808; Catholic, 756; Congregational, 480; Methodiat, 461; Presbyterian, 383; Unitarians, 361; Baptists, 215; Protestant, 175; Christian Science, 103; Lutheran, 90; Church of Christ, 52; Universalist, 29; Quaker, 28; Greek Orthodox, 28; Miscellaneous...