Word: scots
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sunday, Mar. 16, John F. Kelman, Scot divine, will preach his farewell sermon to the congregation of the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church, Manhattan. No evangelical church in the U. S. has a wider reputation. The question of a successor to Dr. Kelman assumes international interest. Three of the last five pastors have been British.* George B. Agnew, committeeman, stated that an American was now desired. Two were mentioned : Charles F. Wishart, of Wooster, O., present moderator of the Presbyterian Church, theologically moderate; Maitland Alexander, of Pittsburgh, dominant fundamentalist. The tradition of the church is said to be fundamentalist. Dr. Kelman...
...verdict which the Nashville murderess is to receive, but if the general opinion of the movie public were consulted, the act might well be considered "justifiable homicide". Men have been killed upon much less provocation in this country before. And were the lady to be let off scot-free and undoubted interest would be added at all performances in the future. Heretofore most movie-murders have been perpetrated on the screen, and the audience has contented itself with a passively vicarious thrill. Recently, even, melodrama has slopped over on to the stage producing several bundred more unjustifiable homieides at which...
...what it is today." Upon Blaise Pascal : " I am told by one young enough to be an authority that ' Pascal's sad, burning thought descends to the inmost seat of being.' Let it work while I sleep." Ernest Boyd describes J. M. Barrie as " the sentimental Scot raised to the nth degree, Harry Lauder without kilts." Elinor Wylie remarks of George Eliot: "her dark brown binding got into her style." H. L. Mencken, voting for Eden Phillpotts, says candidly: "Phillpotts seems to me . . . the worst novelist now in practice in England; certainly no small eminence," while Christopher...
...spirit has been broken since Heywood Broun pronounced our review of Scott Fitzgerald to be "sophomoric"; although that critic has yet to prove how one can be anything but sophomoric when in Fitzgerald's company. We can forgive Mr. Broun, but we cannot let Christopher Morley off scot-free, for we love him too well...
...addressing you in person", we enjoy alike his gossip and his serious discussion, "the general look-in on my mind". His charm arises from the fact that the "look-in" although meant for one person, is not confined to thoughts that only two understand and enjoy. Profoundly serious Scot or light hearted, fanciful Irishman, or the American that was the balance between the two, he has something to say that is worth listening to. Whether slamming Hearst or praising Roosevelt or Wilson, philosophizing over politics or religion, setting forth plans of state or dreaming dreams, his mind and his heart...