Word: sayed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Haven, Conn., Agnes Maude Royden committed a few witticisms directed, in large part, not at her U. S. detractors but at the inhabitants of England. She said: "It is as easy for an Englishman to say something nice as it is for him to have a tooth pulled. ... In America, candidates 'run' for office, in England they 'stand.' . . . For my part, I pledge myself to return to England and to try to interpret the vast enterprises of your great empire, for that is what you are building up, in the certain belief that a genuine understanding can be built...
...Lake Forest, Ill., an old man was having his breakfast. Suddenly, he put his napkin down on the table; before the servant could reach him, he had fallen to the floor across the arm of his chair. An hour or two later, the newspapers in Chicago had headlines saying that Marvin Hughitt, Finance Chairman of the Chicago & Northwestern Railroad, had suffered a paralytic stroke. The morning after the old man had been carried upstairs from his breakfast table, the newspapers published extra editions to say that Marvin Hughitt had died, without regaining consciousness. Some days later every wheel stopped...
This is the plot of The Circus. The little ridiculous tramp is Charlie Chaplin. It is necessary now, not to say that he is funny, but to say how funny he is. It is a case for superlatives, but not for the kind of superlatives that were properly scattered at The Gold Rush. There is nothing in The Circus to match the moment in which Actor Chaplin, with all the fine frenzy of a gourmet dissecting a brace of broiled quail, ate a Christmas dinner consisting of an old, very tough, boiled boot; or that in which he amused...
...nineteenth century Europe had begun to expect a more reasonable, not to say more Christian attitude on the part of the papacy toward the long established churches which had thrown off papal control and by their history of service and sacrifice had demonstrated that...
...trust the report of the Encyclical given in the N. Y. Times of Jan. 10) that the only way in which church unity may be attained is for all to return to "the only true church of Christ" and submit to papal government and authority, one is tempted to say that in the light of past papal pronouncements it is exactly what was to be expected. One wonders, however, what those Roman Catholic students of church history who have been wont to invoke Cardinal Newman's doctrine of development in justification of the many and great changes which the centuries...