Word: religion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When Edward Lloyd left the church choir, where he had sung with Arthur Sullivan (later famed as the composer of the light opera team of Gilbert & Sullivan), to appear in concerts, a cleric warned him of choosing between God and Mammon. "I prefer Mammon to your narrow-minded religion," said young Mr. Lloyd as he set out to charm all England...
...number was responsible. 1914's digits add up to 15. Fifteen means Jehovah, ergo the War was a Jewish conspiracy. The Jews organized the Sarajevo murder. Fortunately, the good old Aryan race instincts prevented the Jewish plot from succeeding. . . . Germany must go back to the good old Niebelungen religion. The ancient Teutons did not pray, but commanded their gods...
Conspicuous now, throughout the U. S. and England, is a craze- questions and answers. This is being applied by the International Advertising Association with the purpose of finding out what various groups of people believe about religion. Last week, 1,000 hearty Dartmouth College undergraduates, who brave the Hanover (N. H.) winter with the aid of supplies from Canada, answered the following questionnaire in the following manner...
...think that religion in some form is a necessary element of life for the individual and the community? Yes, 858; no, 132; undecided...
...certain concentration as well as dignity and pathos, the rift between father and sons being so easily enhanced by differences of education, speech, and dress. The old man is an admirable mixture of hard good sense and other worldliness; his imagination is alive with the symbols of his religion and race, and he speaks tenderly of early surroundings, of privation and piety and study, of a world which, one is led to feel with him, was a real school of character...