Word: particularities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...There is no country in the world in which the actual text of the Scriptures has had greater effect than in Britain. . . . This is the earliest manuscript of the New Testament in the world. ... It has for this country, more than for any other, a particular value...
...copies of the city's four leading newspapers: Col. William Franklin Knox's Daily News; William Randolph Hearst's American and Herald & Examiner; Col. Robert Rutherford McCormick's Tribune. General Johnson did not have to be told by any Chicagoan that the New Deal in general and NRA in particular had been given the longest and hardest editorial drubbing anywhere in the land by these four dailies. Col. McCormick was also chairman of the Press Freedom Committee of the American Newspaper Publishers' Association and. as such, had taken a loud and leading position against any NRA attempt to silence...
...Hollywood, supervising one of her cinemas in which John Gilbert was playing, Author Glyn, dissatisfied with his efforts in a particular scene, asked: "Jack, can't you be passionate?" Replied Cinemactor Gilbert with a steady look...
...Methodism sought the money through its women. Methodism got the money from you. Methodism, vised by its geographical Bishop, promised to repay the money owed you. Methodism, in the particular locality which initially owes you, whines its inability to pay its honest debts. Yet, this same sunny California brand of Methodism finds ways to yearly send $65,000 to poke their noses into the business of foreigners-of Chinamen alone, and, if you please, of Chinamen only in Foochow, In that...
...bundle 1.000 healthy men who have no particular fondness for reading into one huge hall with nothing much else to do, they will probably sing, sleep or wax playful. Precisely that has occurred on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange almost every trading day for the past two months. Astonished visitors saw sights and heard sounds that would shake the faith of the blackest capitalist. Specialists dozed through raucous japery and ear-splitting versions of such old Floor favorites as "Wait Till the Sun Shines, Nellie" or "The Wearing of the Green." Oldsters yawned over backgammon, clerks wrestled...