Word: religion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Annie, the adulteress, is an Irish-Catholic girl. She came to the U. S. with a young girl friend when she was 14. When she was 19 she married a kindly Protestant who was 25 years her senior. His great fault was a disposition to quarrel about religion, especially after their daughter was born. He permitted his wife to leave him for a younger Protestant with whom she fell in love. Busybodies had her arrested for adultery. After her reformatory term she went back to her lover, became a Protestant, has grown stout and religious...
...Bolsheviks sacked the Swiss legation in Petrograd and recalled that Lenin once defined the League of Nations as "an institution of brigandage." In a fiery peroration Dr. Motta drew chaos from the gallery and handclaps from a few delegates by branding the Soviet Union as the universal betrayer of religion. "Their churches in Russia are abandoned and fall in ruins," cried Dr. Motta. ". . . Communism dissolves the family; it suppresses individual initiative; it abolishes private property. Russia is afflicted with the somber curse of famine...
...social-minded churchman who was born 44 years ago in South Dakota, Dwight Bradley studied at Oberlin College and the Pacific School of Religion. After holding four pastorates scattered from California to Ohio he went to Boston, became president of the city's Federation of Churches, rescued it from doldrums. At Union Church he will try much the same thing. Though it has had such able pastors as Rev. Dr. Ernest Graham Guthrie (now of Chicago) and the late Rev. Dr. Nehemiah Boynton, Union Church has but 389 enrolled members. Surrounded by lodging houses, it draws polyglot congregations...
...palatial colonial house in the southeast corner of the Yard, home of George Herbert Palmer '64. Alford Professor of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy and Civil Polity, emeritus, for more than fifty years, but which has been unoccupied since his death on May 7, 1933, will be used once more as a residence by an officer of the University, when Richard Mott Gummere, new Chairman of the Committee on Admissions and lecture in Latin occupies it this fall...
...Mediterranean is a southern sea, and yet it has created a philosophy, a religion, and an empire. This fact makes Italy impervious to criticism from abroad. We can regard with supreme disparagement those doctrines which come from elsewhere, from a people which did not even know how to write when we had Caesar, Virgil, and Augustus...