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...martial rhythm, advised Plugger Smith to give it the works. Soon, God Bless America began to go to town, was widely heralded as a new national anthem. Forthwith it was suggested that the song be rendered as a hymn. After Collins had tried it out to a pious beat, he hastily returned to the original arrangement when complaints poured...
...family reputation to live down. His father (Literary Critic John Jay Chapman) had attended that haughty, Episcopalian institution during the reign of "the First Man of God"-the late, great Headmaster Henry Augustus Coit-and had been expelled because he went too far even for pious St. Paul's: in the midst of a cricket game he suddenly knelt and prayed in front of the wicket. Chanler never was expelled, but his conduct at St. Paul's was, if anything, worse than his father...
...Investment Advisers Act which will put investment trusts and counselors under SEC supervision, Candidate Roosevelt called the bill to witness "this Administration's vigorous program . . . to protect the investor." Sure that "we have come a long way from the bleak days of 1929." the President voiced a pious hope: "It is a source of satisfaction that businessmen have at last come to recognize that it is this Administration's purpose to aid the honest businessman...
Matthew Parker was a pious, scholarly divine who took unto himself a spouse in 1547, when it was still illegal for clergymen of the Church of England to marry.* In 1560, as Queen Elizabeth's Archbishop of Canterbury, Matthew Parker was set to draw up a list of marriage prohibitions. The resultant Table of Kindred and Affinity, Wherein Whosoever Are Related are Forbidden in Scripture and Our Laws to Marry Together stands prominently in every Anglican church in England to this...
TUMBLEWEEDS-Marta Roberts-Putnam ($2.50). This sympathetic study of simple, pious, maternal Concha Garcia subjects her strong spirit to much woe and a strange, alien world of Norteamericanos. By page two the reader suspects that Peón Pedro Garcia will lose his California section-gang job. But by chapter two the reader finds that there is little Steinbeck in this chronicle of adversity: Faith in the Saints supports Mama Garcia in preserving her Pedro's self-respect, her large brood's health and virtue. Pedro lacks Faith, succumbs to relief, gin, a jalopy. So Concha leaves...