Word: reade
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Depicted was a sophisticated bookshop into which an innocent, pink-cheeked old lady had blundered, on her Christmas shopping. The caption-irresistibly amusing to Britons, but puzzling to many a U. S. citizen-read...
Authoress Radclyffe Hall has said: "I have studied abnormal psychology for 13 years, as a member of the Council for the Society for Psychical Research, and as a Fellow of the Royal Zoological Society. Those who read my book need not be told that there is nothing salacious in it, and that it is written very gravely and without offense. . . . When I speak of female inverts I do not mean perverts. . . . Many times the invert is a great artist, highly sensitive and intelligent. She would contribute much to society if she were not despised and abused...
Turning back to a page of Fifteenth Century history, one may read the famed Bull of Pope Alexander VI, whereby "The New World" of the Americas was pontifically divided between the most Catholic sovereigns of Spain and Portugal-the latter getting Brazil. Some three centuries later Napoleon drove John VI out of Portugal, and that monarch fled with his Court to Brazil. When things quieted down in Portugal, His Majesty returned to his beloved Lisbon; but he left behind in the "New World" as Regent, his eldest son, famed as "Dom Pedrc of Brazil." When Brazilians and their Regent presently...
Certain friends of Prof. William Lyon Phelps spluttered with alarm when they read last week that he had been installed honorary pastor of Calvary Baptist Church. They envisioned the famed teacher, talker, critic, nodding meek approval on the platform of Calvary Baptist of the harsh fundamentalisms of Dr. John Roach Straton, pastor-in-chief...
...better to win simple hearts. Over the Alps they went, throughout the World, singing of the sweet mystery of Bethlehem. Their songs lingered behind them. The Spanish peasant added episodes out of his dark Moorish imagination. In one group of Spanish carols the three wise men become gypsies, who read the palms and tell the fortunes of Jesus, Mary, Joseph. In Germany an ancient custom still endures, in some old-world villages: that of singing carols from the church towers...