Word: religion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...only requisite for membership. A graduate secretary lends his efforts and advice to the work and to the cabinet. That is, in brief, the organization. The members of the Association believe that action directed towards the betterment of life and living is one of the truest expressions of religion...
...Theodore Roosevelt once said that he could never discriminate against a man because he embraced the religion that came to him with his mother's milk...
...after the Lutherans published their resolution, Nominee Smith, in a New Year's message to U. S. Jewry, published these balanced phrases: "The separation of Church and State is a fundamental American principle. The pursuit of virtue sanctioned by religion is at the basis of any civilized State...
...Weatherby, a portly widow with a sensuous passion for exotic religions, was flattered to receive them both one hot afternoon. Vain, she did not suspect that d'Astier came only to convert her wealth to the Church; and d'Orobelli to glean some gossip of Annie Spragg. Maundering, inaccurate, patronizing, Mrs. Weatherby said Annie had lived with her fanatic preacher brother at the edge of Winnebago Falls-her only companion a Hack goat, partner in her devilish Bacchanalian dances. That her father had been Cyrus Spragg, "the Prophet" in Illinois of a garish religion founded upon...
...Sawdust Paradise. Than Esther Ralston few are more lovely, than Hobart Bosworth few more noble. Somehow La Ralston failed to be convincing as the circus Hallie whom an evangelist (Bosworth) denounced because she ran a shell game. She was arrested, paroled in the evangelist's care. She gets religion, almost loses her boy friend (Reed Howes), but inevitably wins him over to the cause of righteousness...