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...University of Chicago's Divinity School: "You can't establish the Christian position in relation to conscription by quoting isolated passages from the Bible. ... I long ago stopped using proof-text to justify conduct." Director Paul Burt of the University of Illinois' Wesley Foundation told a pious anecdote about a proof-text layman who turned to the Bible for guidance in his life work, opened it at random to "Judas went and hanged himself." On his second try the alarmed layman hit on "Go thou and do likewise...
...less pious precincts this summer, Ann Corio will probably fall back on her burlesque routine. When she returns to burlesque in the fall, she will add a bit of variety to her act by breaking into a boastful ditty written by Tunesmith Edwin Gilbert especially for her: I was a Hit in Legit...
...appeal to reason would be laughed into thin air. The question Germany, Italy and the world's innocent bystanders wondered about was not what the British Government would say, but who would say it and how. The task fell to Foreign Secretary Lord Halifax, whose solemn, pious, sincere air has won him the nickname "Lord Holy Facts...
...concert featuring his famed bass-drum solo to the Army tune, Carry On (he has given it 6,000 times, in every part of the U. S.). Said one critic: "It is the first time I have heard a drum played as a musical instrument." Said the Brigadier with pious pride: "Well, I guess I'm just about the best there...
Kaleidoscopic Cavalcade. Hero of the celebration was Alfonso I, who in 1139 defeated the Moors at Campo de Ourique, liberated his country and became its first king. According to pious tradition, his Army was reinforced by a legion of militant angels. From then on the history of Portugal became a kaleidoscopic cavalcade of conquest, exploration, staggering defeat, decline, intrigue and adversity. With barely 1,500,000 inhabitants, by Papal Bull Portugal in 1494 divided the entire world with Spain, drawing an imaginary line from the North to the South Pole 370 leagues west of Cape Verde and leaving all land...