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...notorious fact that nations, as nations, never repent. The North expected the South to repent the Civil War-without avail. But Grant's magnanimity and Lee's gentlemanliness after the war did much to bridge a yawning chasm of hate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Honest Confession | 5/5/1923 | See Source »

...plot, formula 7-B, concerns itself with the wastrel son of a rich and rather bourgeois family, who marries an actress in defiance of his parents' social ambitions for him, and then, calling to his aid the spirit of love, sweetness and light, makes them approve of her and repent their boorish behavior toward her. The music written by Sissle and Blake, authors of the Negro jazz revue Shuffle Along, and Carlo and Sanders, composers of the musical hit Tangerine, shows what Broadway composers of established ability can do when they don't try very hard, and the book...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Plays: Apr. 14, 1923 | 4/14/1923 | See Source »

...voice" when a recommendation was made to cut taxes and other wise advice was quietly offered, the G. O. P. men now turn to him when the long and unsatisfactory record of this Congress has stamped its unfavorable impression upon the public mind; probably it is too late to repent. Admittedly it is against political reason for the dominant party to hope to secure as large a representation in Congress as in 1920; there will be a backwash. If this counteraction is large, the success of the future program will be endangered...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "LET US ADJOURN . . ." | 6/3/1922 | See Source »

...farmers of the state have again brought the question of Daylight Saving Repent before the General Court of Massachusetts. The renewed attempt to abolish the extra hour of daylight, which is now provided for by a state law, is backed by a systematic canvass of the rural districts of the state for signatures to a petition, in accord with the united protest of farmers throughout the country against daylight saving; their opposition being based on a claim that it causes difficulties in labor conditions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE EXTRA HOUR | 2/9/1921 | See Source »

...presence of God. But in vain, Even on the sea he could not escape; and at last his conscience, as we should say today, forced him to do his duty. At the second call he went to Nineveb. What was his mission there? Obviously to call the people to repentance. Never, as you may observe, was he informed that Nineveh would be destroyed, or even directed to threaten the people with overthrow. But it was, of course, understood that calamity would befall them if they did not repent--yet clearly only if they did not do so. The object...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "KEEP ULTIMATE GOAL BEFO RE THE EYES"-PRES. LOWELL | 6/22/1920 | See Source »

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