Word: pearls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Yale University Authoress Pearl Sydenstricker Buck . . . . . . M.A. Explorer Lincoln Ellsworth . . . . . . . . M.S. Alfred Lee Loomis, Manhattan banker and physicist . . . . . . . . .M.S. Ernest Fremont Tittle, liberal Methodist preacher of Evanston, Ill. . . . . . . . D.D. Director Herbert Eustis Winlock of the Metropolitan Museum of Art . . . . . . . . Litt.D. Hugh Smith Gumming, Surgeon General of the U. S. . . . . . . . . . . LL.D. Harold Willis Dodds, President-elect of Princeton University. . . . . . . . . . LL.D. William Mills Maltbie, Chief Justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court of Errors . . . . . . . . . . . . . LL.D...
...know how this stuff came into existence . . . and if I were obliged, not to define poetry, but to name the class of things to which it belongs, I should call it a secretion; whether a natural secretion, like turpentine in the fir, or a morbid secretion, like the pearl in the oyster. I think that my own case, though I may not deal with the material so cleverly as the oyster does, is the latter; because I have seldom written poetry unless I was rather out of health, and the experience, though pleasurable, was generally agitating and exhausting." After...
...Columbus, Ohio last week met 1,500 U. S. Presbyterians in their annual General Assembly. Fundamentalists had come bringing threats, chief among them Dr. John Gresham Machen of Philadelphia who last month stirred up the row leading to the resignation of Author Pearl Sydenstricker Buck as a mission teacher in China (TIME, May 8). Since then Dr. Machen had flayed Mrs. Buck for an "antiChristian propagandist,'' excoriated the Presbyterian Foreign Missions board for its "Yes-&-No" attitude, called everybody names including even much-revered Board Secretary Robert Elliott Speer whom, by implication, he called "dishonest" and "evasive...
...news of bygone weeks, herewith sequels from last week's news: ¶ To the resignation of Author Pearl Sydenstricker Buck from Presbyterian foreign mission work in answer to charges of heresy (TIME, May 8); the resignation of Mrs. Henry V. K. Gillmore from the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions, commendation of Mrs. Buck by the Middle Atlantic Conference of Congregational and Christian Churches...
...President Nicholas Murray Butler; and Captain Neville Lawrence, London broker; in Manhattan. Seeking Divorce. Joan Crawford Fairbanks, cinemactress; from Douglas Fairbanks Jr., cinemactor. Grounds: "grievous mental cruelty"; "a jealous and suspicious attitude" toward her friends; "loud arguments about the most trivial subjects," lasting "far into the night." Resigned. Pearl Sydenstricker Buck, author (The Good Earth), as a Chinese missionary, voluntarily, without a hearing on heresy charges brought by Professor J. Gresham Machen of Westminster Theological Seminary (Philadelphia). Resigned. Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd; as chairman of the National Economy League; in Manhattan. Reason: "pressure of personal affairs." Died. Air Marshal...