Word: rotarians
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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People who resent hearing Jesus called "first Rotarian" resent also he kindred phenomenon of a smooth-spoken advertising expert exercising his facile dictaphone to bring home truths about religion with which most literate people consider themselves perfectly conversant. Critics have derided Mr. Barton's writings for carrying he strong odor of professional publicity and for the seeming presumptuousness of the titles: Nobody Knows." The implication is: "Nobody knows but Bruce Barton, and many people are affronted by such mixtures of religious with secular talk as "Christianity was launched as a short-time proposition." . . . "Preachers . . . believed the world would be . . . liquidated...
...remark which attained a wider currency than its author intended. Mr. Gibbs' subject is the 'student conference' which too often reaches, in the name of a free discussion of educational problems, no higher result than the training up of the student delegates who attend toward a "future of fair Rotarian godliness"; and he treats it with a lively, slightly vitriolic pen, and the authority of one who has suffered the boredom and sense of fuitility that such meetings induce. Mr. Gibbs makes out an impressive case; but his presentation of it might be more effective still if he were wholly...
...meal and one meal only it is pointed out is treasured by the average American business man: namely, the weekly Kiwanian or Rotarian luncheon which, though not always marked by excellent fare, is at any rate a leisurely and companiable occasion. But is is not the fortune of everyone to be either a Kiwanian or a Rotarian and therefore the non-fraternal portion of America is left with a cup of coffee, a sandwich, and a tin plated armchair. The Forum author endeavors to solve the enigma. "To me our main difficulty seems to be a failure to make...
...became first Rotarian when Mr. Sapp withdrew...
...state education chief, the two U.S. Sentors, two U.S. Representatives, two members of President Coolidge's National Advisory Commission to the .... Exposition, a school superintendent; a Rotarian, a Kiwanian and a Lion; a Protestant, a Catholic and a Jewish clergyman; an American Legion man and a Daughter of the American Revolution; a clubwoman, a Woman Voter, a Parent-Teacher representative; an adult executive each of the Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts and Camp Fire Girls...