Word: personal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Have great religious teachers come in the past-Roman world to intervene in its Hebraic orthodoxy and Roman materialism ? If so, would He work through the consciousness and personality of a Kellogg, a Coolidge, a Lloyd George or a Baldwin, or through some gentle, strong person fit to express the power of the " strong Son of God, immortal love" ? If the latter, why not a person born of the gentle, intelligent, clean, ascetic Brahmin stock? For if He came as a Protestant, would Catholics accept? If as a Catholic, would Christian Scientists? When last time He came, the Christ worked...
...Bigelow's book] I am represented as a large traveling salesman sort of person pervading in Lady Russell's party with violent boastfulness about purely imaginary royalties that so galled Bigelow - that is, the sort of person he wanted me to be, and that's the sort of person he means me to be if lying can do it-and when the remarks about the Charing Cross bridge come in they are very generously ascribed to Anthony Hope, who is quite incapable of such stupidities...
...admirer of the TIME I like to remind you of a trifle mistake which you made on p. 16 in the Jan. 4 issue of your magazine (Vol. VII, No. 1). The slim figure in the picture printed on that page, entitled "Feng adroit," does not represent the stalwart person of the so-called Christian General Feng Yu-Hsiang. In fact, it is the picture of the late General Feng Kou-Chang, once the Vice President of the Republic of China. Perhaps it will not be far amiss for me to add here that, although bearing the same name...
...doughty Maximilian sums himself justly, modestly and with vigor in the third person: "No man's servant hath he been...
...money making power of football, supports one of the fundamental elements of the "democratic ideal", namely, inter-class and intra-mural sports. The second argument in their defense was that the publicity ensuing from success in sports is not necessarily an evil but other a natural reward for the person who reaches the top in any line of effort...