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...pact guaranteeing French security the French delegation would cut their demand for a navy of 725,000 tons by 20%; 2) the President will not agree, in diplomatic language to "implement" the Kellogg Peace Pact, or, in plain English, to create mechanism for the purpose of making its pious pledge of peace enforcible...
...insurance actuary. Actress Helen Menken is a wan creature who faints on his doorstep. He befriends her to the extent of a bed, a portion of his gruel and the services of a doctor. The backslid daughter of a scholar, she can quote reams of the pious Carlyle, but she compares her own way of life to that of Aspasia, most successful of the Athenian courtesans. The Scotsman talks of her soul; he signs another man's name on his own examination paper in order to get money to provide her with a rest-cure in Spain...
Important among proponents of the union is stalwart, gracious Dr. Robert Elliott Speer, 62, of Manhattan, Secretary of the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions, potent religious statesman and author, sire of pious offspring,* famed among a fond younger generation as "Weeping Bob" for his emotional sermons. Dr. Speer studied for the ministry, was never ordained, but was made a Doctor of Divinity by the University of Edinburgh in 1910. Thus he is still a layman. But at the conference he personified the Presbyterian Church in the U. S. A., by far the largest denomination present (estimated membership...
...scholars agree that the trinitarian references in the Bible are pious forgeries. The question of the divinity of Jesus is not worth a hill of beans. . . . We must scrap the Bible before we can attain church unity. It has no part in the 20th century civilization...
...sacred coconut was blessed in India by the Hindu Primate, then carried by a Pundit to the Chateau Holkar on the outskirts of Paris, where it was broken and the virgin milk allowed to splash upon the naked girl-babe, who was christened Princess Sharada Raje Holkar, amid pious shouts of "Om! Shantih! Shantih"!! Shantih!!! "Oh! Peace! Peace!! Peace...