Word: self
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Please cancel my subscription at once. I can no longer tolerate your sneering articles regarding Catholic persons and affairs and I do not understand how any self-respecting Catholic can remain your subscriber. Your articles under RELIGION this week are an insult to nine-tenths of the Christian world for nine-tenths of that world is still Catholic. Your policy is a poor...
...economical midday lunch at a Thompson's restaurant where food is balanced on the broad-arm of a one-armed chair and 50c buys abundant calories to sustain life, has all unknowingly lunched with the Governor of his Commonwealth. For Governor Fuller, rich today, was born poor; is self-made; eats luncheons at Thompson's in preference to dining at the Copley Plaza, the Touraine, the Statler. Born 49 years ago in Maiden (suburb of Boston), Governor Fuller left school at the age of 14, taking a job in a rubber factory to help support his widowed mother...
...year 1911 I was badly hurt in a railroad collision-near Armour's Station on the Southern railroad. The company promptly paid me $2,000-to get my old self doctored-and it was this money that I invested with the Bank of Donaldsonville. being promised a 10% dividend by Hon. J. S. Shingler, multi-millionaire of Ashburn, Ga., and its president." Mrs. Felton then told how -she had not received one cent of dividends and how she had appealed to the State banking commission, to the State Supreme Court, to the Governor. They did nothing to help...
...come closer to being in his biography than the late George Cram Cook now comes. Susan Glaspell, the wife with whom he lived his richest years, is an attentive woman. She appears to have seen him whole and in part, forgotten nothing. Her spirit is great enough to put self entirely aside except at moments of the greatest intimacy and importance-the very moments when an inferior nature would have quailed ox bridled. She has recreated and interpreted times and persons she could not have shared, with a quality of understanding that makes the book perhaps the finest thing...
...looked into the chasm of the insanity that is higher than sanity during a wilderness period following the failure of his first marriage, but regained a balance fortified by the experience. It taught him the relation of self-expansion and self-obliteration, the phases by which, like two legs constantly passing each other, mankind has marched-Roman power, Christian abnegation; Renaissance, Reformation; hayfoot, strawfoot. He renewed the motion of his days, saying: "The stream of life, like running water, can purify itself...