Word: sabbaths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...British Sabbath: Anglican clergymen are gagged by the Archbishop of Canterbury and Primate of All England who forbids them to sermonize on the King & Mrs. Simpson and prays publicly that God may "rule over" (i. e. overrule) the judgment of His Majesty. The Primate is not actually jeered (as the Cabinet are) on leaving Downing Street after a conference with the Prime Minister but a woman darts forward to thrust at the Archbishop's limousine a placard: "ABDICATION MEANS REVOLUTION!" Cinema houses take an official hint, and newsreels of the King & Mrs. Simpson hand-in-handing are suppressed...
...idle. Last month The Lord's Day Alliance, in semi-annual meeting in Manhattan, plumped for Presidential Nominee Landon because he had declined to deliver a political speech on Sunday; for Vice Presidential Nominee Knox because he declared he would not publish his Chicago Daily News on the Sabbath. But the National Peace Conference, a coalition of 34 peace bodies, voiced its "intense chagrin" at the weak foreign affairs planks in the Republican platform...
...demanded that each juror be polled. It took three-quarters of an hour. Each juror declared each defendant guilty of every charge against him. Said Judge to Jurors: "I congratulate you on the service you have rendered the people and the righteousness of your verdict." He smiled in the Sabbath dawn. "And now run along...
...James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother, who also were in the ship mending their nets. And straightway he called them: and they left their father Zebedee in the ship with the hired servants, and went after him. And they went to Capernaum; and straightway on the sabbath day he entered the synagogue and taught. . . . -Mark, I: 17-22. In the Smithsonian Institution in Washington one day last week, a swart Assyrian-born scholar named Dr. George W. Lamsa bent over a photostat of a large block of weathered stone covered with squiggly characters. He immediately recognized these...
...Curzon. To these civil servants, who have seen his League policies of Peace and Disarmament broken one by one and Mr. Henderson himself treated as an interloper at Geneva by his British successors, he was a great Foreign Secretary. When Death came at 8 p. m. on the Sabbath, London's Times said on Monday: "He was the embodiment of the qualities and aspirations of the Labor Party...