Word: sayings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sharp, circuit judge at Marlinton, W. Va., often visits Charleston, the capital, where George Sharp is Secretary of State. When both are in town at once, people rub their eyes and Negroes get the "jim-jams." George Sharp has been mentioned as a gubernatorial candidate and West Virginians say that, should he choose to run, he could (with Summers Sharp's help) campaign in two parts of the State at once, and, if elected, attend the executive office only half the time...
...Secondly, we recently ruled against the Edith Cavell picture Dawn because it was too warlike. I am told it cost ?35,000. It's not the war spirit that we want to foster but the spirit of peace. Thirdly, there is our attitude toward religious films. I may say that we would not have passed The King of Kings. The producer, probably surmising as much, did not submit it. The chief objection would have been against the idea of an actor impersonating the Founder of Christianity...
...first time in the U. S., according to the prosecuting attorneys, that a physician had been given a death sentence as penalty for having performed an abortion, although many a one has been fined or imprisoned. The crime is fairly common, say sociologists, in the U. S. and is increasing. Although abortions are exceedingly dangerous to the health & life of a woman, they are relatively simple operations to perform. Death is usually an untoward accident...
...another sermon he described the scene which would take place when he arrived in Heaven. First he will shake hands with Jesus and thank Him for coming to the world and for calling Billy Sunday to His work. He, Billy Sunday, will then say, in case his "hunch" bears fruit and he dies before Mrs. Sunday: "I left Nell and the children down there on earth and I'd like to hang around the gate here to meet them." Jesus, Mr. Sunday thought, would reply in these terms: "All right, Bill, just sit down there. They'll come...
...next time you come in here you'll see my face and hear my voice in your imagination. You will note this spot where the platform stood and you will imagine me standing here. Say, Jesus, I'm through in St. Louis. Though I never walk the streets of St. Louis again in the flesh, I shall walk them in the spirit. Often in spirit I shall come to the Locust street entrance of the Coliseum, where those fine policemen have met me for seven weeks. . . ." Billy Sunday reached for his overcoat and let the converts come...