Word: saints
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Goats. As U. S. businessmen sat back to see how much they could believe of Saint Harry's epistle to the erstwhile Philistines (see p. 49), historians noted the emergence of a new flock of U. S. goats. These were lawyers, business and constitutional. Lawyers were given their turn as national goats-after Bankers, Businessmen, Tories and Publishers-by Harry Hopkins when he blamed them last week for adding to Business' uncertainty during the Reform period of the New Deal by their "shortsighted counsel"; again, when he chortled over how the utilities were finally told...
...long been powerful with the Hindu masses, but the radical Bose program, based on a frankly anti-British policy, has been strongly supported by Indian workers and peasants. For Britain there were definite signs of storms ahead. British viceroys and governors in India will no longer deal with "reasonable" Saint Gandhi and his followers but with the exacting, "unreasonable" Mr. Bose. And among the things Mr. Bose is known to have in mind to help "persuade" the British in India to give the country more self-rule are civil disobedience, a general strike, no-rent and no-tax campaigns...
...real name is lost in antiquity, but he is known as St. Dismas. He is the patron saint of those condemned to death. Dismas was the "Good Thief" who was crucified on Calvary alongside Jesus, who said to him: "This day shalt thou be with me in Paradise." This poor saint's feast day (March 25) gains him no great devotion, for it coincides with the vastly more important feast of the Annunciation...
Newsman MacMurphy's fortunes advanced. Finally he became the News's business manager. Every March 25 his St. Dismas piece crept a little nearer the front page. And on that day MacMurphy would write again the homely praises of his favorite saint: "There are so many better advertised saints, all specialists, that few mortals bother much with this hoodlum saint, who roams the outfield of eternity, making shoestring catches of souls-a saint who has no following to speak of, no medals, no propaganda. There's nothing to recommend him, really, except the fact that...
...evening of Nov. 17, 1891 a sharp-eyed Pole with an incredible stack of red-gold hair walked onto the stage of Manhattan's Carnegie Hall. He bowed suavely, sat down at the piano and struck the opening chords of Saint-Saens' G Minor Piano Concerto. Leading the attendant orchestra was Manhattan's cool, deliberate Walter Damrosch, then a young...