Word: persons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...mortals should not take advantage of the magnanimity of such a creature. Can they doubt that with powers such as it possesses it could blast them from the face of the earth? Witches could be burned, but a poltergeist that can change his habitation from person to person at will is best left alone...
...tourney the Crimson competed against teams from Colgate, Columbia, Cornell, Hamilton, Lehigh, Michigan, Ohio State, Pennsylvania, Syracuse, Williams, and Yale. Representatives from Dartmouth, and Princeton were invited, but could not attend because of examinations. This year, however, Princeton will be present and promises real singles opposition in the person of Van Ryn, a member of the Davis Cup squad last year, and a strong doubles combination in Van Ryn and Appel, outdoor Intercollegiate titleholders. Yale and Williams are both strong, and as Coach Cowles remarked last night, "Harvard will have a hard battle to retain the title. But with Hill...
Four Sons parades the emotions of Bavarian Mother Bernle who sees three sons goose step to war and death. The fourth and youngest had sailed before the War to the U. S., but he too eventually holds a bayonet. Evil appears in the person of a Prussian, monocled and stooped, mannered and sneering. But Director John Ford sees to it that the boy is safely returned to New York and mother...
...Despite its context, this word was not, as many of Billy Sunday's listeners no doubt imagined, a malaprop description of St. Louis vice. Nor was "bloody" used in its colloquial connotation. The new testament promulgates the theory that one person may atone for the sins of another; even, by great suffering and great holiness, for the sins of many. Monasteries, contrary to common supposition, are founded upon this principle of substitution. Perhaps the most strikingly emotional element of Christianity, it often finds expression in urgent hymns such as "Washed in the Blood of the Lamb...
...Manhattan upon this topic: The Holy Comforter, or Vision and Supervision. Said he: "We have many saints in our higher offices today . . . there are many flapper saints in short skirts. . . . We should all try to get back to the childhood spirit. . . ." In addition, Bishop Darlington asserted that only one person in 500 communes "directly" with the Holy Ghost; that he would introduce jazz music into services if he thought it would bring many people into church...