Word: prays
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...upon. Not the least of these merits is taste. This age like all others has many writers of verse, many creative minds in literature. Unfortunately, too few of these men possess in addition to their native ability, the mental poise which disallows the indiscretions of mediocrity. Not content to pray to their own muse, they wantonly and with an often unintelligent iconoclasm destroy the temples of other muses. Such men, obviously, cannot stride the twin steeds of Pegasus and Propriety. Nor is this an ability remote from greatness. Bulls in so many china shons, they are often futile in conversation...
...Valentino. (When a rumor that he was dead circulated, the calls came at the rate of 2,000 an hour.) A maid delivered an Irish linen bed spread and pillow case marked "Rudy" with a card from Jean Acker. (She was his first wife.) From Paris came a message, "Pray God night and day for your recovery." It was signed Winifred Hudnut. (She was his second wife.) "This is Pola Negri in California," said a brittle voice on telephone, "How is Mr. Valentino?" Thousands, hundreds of thousands of women everywhere were asking, "How is Mr. Valentino...
...China. But, as a matter of fact, these aforesaid students do not represent the attitude of the best Chinese. For their priests and temple officials are almost universally gracious and hospitable toward Christianity, and most of our summer student conferences are held in Buddhist and Confucian temples. I could pray that some of our learned Christian leaders might have more of the spirit of Christ and of the Gautama?might have more faith in God, and not be so fearful of their little brand of religion being overturned by tolerance toward other faiths. Intolerance will never make the world Christian...
...bathing suit had a white edging around the armholes. It was a one-piece suit with the pretense of a short skirt. The trunks came down almost to her knees. Her legs that day were vague. Some reports have her wearing stockings, others none. Her followers-those that pray night and day in the Prayer Tower of her Angelus Temple, those who have seen her in her white nurse's uniform exhorting them, those who have heard her over her KFSG radio station-have been hunting for her incessantly. Most believe her drowned, have crowded to the ocean front...
...revolt, broke loose. Paper after paper, from Yale to the University of Southern California, took up the issue. Phrases like this were flaunted under the noses of the deans: "Religious compulsion is a contradiction in terms. . . ." "You can beat a student to his knees, but you cannot make him pray." "We have a body of men who go to chapel under protest to sleep, read, or merely to sit in bovine passiveness while the choir sings and the leader reads and prays." So effective was the agitation that three student bodies voted against required chapel in the fall...