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...reveals the consistency of their policies, which we have often had the pleasure of seeing put into action. The movie begins at the presentation of a morality play at Salzburg. But soon the protagonists, a ballerina who is a helpless dope addict, a city health official who is a pillar of righteousness, and happy family owing a pharmacy, are entangled in the problem of good and evil. Through a series of decisions the latter characters conquer the evil which grips the ballerina and involves, by extension, all mankind. Their morality is practical and successful. It is eminently Christian...
Foundation of foundations and firmest pillar of all wisdom...
...official Soviet Encyclopedia, Vishinsky's past is prettily arranged for posterity. He appears as a revolutionary almost from childhood, a man persecuted by regimes hostile to progress, a brilliant and prolific author of legal works, a pillar of probity in the Soviet state. But then, of course, Vishinsky, once editor of the Soviet Encyclopedia, was able to rewrite history...
Isabella Gardner inherited millions of dollars from her father (a Manhattan importer) and millions more from her husband, John Lowell Gardner, who was a pillar of Boston society. She enjoyed the money. Young "Mrs. Jack" buffaloed Boston by such antics as strolling down Tremont Street with a lion on a leash, and high balling to a North Shore party at the throttle of a chartered locomotive. Once, when asked to contribute to "The Charitable Eye and Ear Infirmary," she remarked that she was not aware of a charitable eye or ear in Boston. Henry Adams described the effect...
...once infamous city of Sodom,* which has been pretty much out of the news since Lot's Wife turned into a pillar of salt and the whole sinful citizenry got its comeuppance (Genesis 19), was back in the limelight. Tel Aviv's Chamber Theater Company arrived in Sodom to perform for the local miners and settlers-among them, Israel's former Premier David Ben Gurion, now a sheep farmer. On a stage set up near the Dead Sea, 1,200 ft. below sea level, the actors put on a new play, Casablan, dealing with the social...