Word: resting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...stubborn difficulties. The first is the Asiatic complex. Anything approaching world confederation must take account of the two enormous aggregations of population in India and China, which together include about half the human race. No world union is possible so long as this vast population might out-vote the rest of the globe. The second difficulty is that, if the majestic idea of a vast federation is actually carried out in Europe, two of the most important units must he omitted. The first of them is Russia. Five-sixths of the population of that Soviet Union live west...
...continuing his perennial search for a champagne in which the bubbles go down instead of up, and ever so politely inquiring, "Did you ever feel as though you had a live trout inside you?" Most of the stories he tells are ridiculous, dipsomanianecdotes but one, which begins like the rest, has such sorrowful innuendo that you soon stop laughing...
...into the Belasco Theatre in Manhattan early one morning, answering an advertisement for supers. She looked tired and sick but she managed to learn what she had to do quicker than the dozen girls hired with her. Belasco took her out of the cast and sent her home to rest up, continued to pay her salary. He gave her lessons for a season and in 1916 put her in a big part in The Heart of Wetona. Working for him during the next twelve years she spent much of her time putting walnut stain on those portions of her person...
Last week, Monell Sayre went to a conference at the Church of the Heavenly Rest, one of Manhattan's newest, most expensive churches. The subject was not money but the "mystical element in the Christian faith." Pension Expert Sayre was the only lay speaker. He talked not on dollar-getting, but on "Mysticism to a Business Man." More and better preaching was what Mr. Sayre wanted. Parsons had propounded too much politics and social uplift, not enough mysticism, he said. What the workingman needed was an awareness of God. Said he: "If you try to talk Christianity to industrial...
Exacting, sometimes exhausting, is the job of editing a national magazine. Editor Merle Crowell, head of the American Magazine since 1923, last week decided to obey long-disobeyed doctor's orders. He resigned his editorship, planned a long rest...