Word: self
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sent out by the American Board of Missions. For 14 years Dr. Judd ministered to the Hawaiians, body and soul, helping with many another missionary to persuade them from idolatry to Christianity. The work of the early missionaries in Hawaii was so well and wisely done that Hawaii's self-chosen nickname, "Paradise of the Pacific," has a special connotation for practicing Christians. They point to the Islands as a great practical demonstration of the faith. All sects except the Roman Catholics and Episcopalians are merged in Hawaii as the Central Union Church...
...Passfield and Beatrice Webb." Unique is Mrs. Webb's decision. Other authors, including John Galsworthy, Rudyard Kipling, have refused titles. But there is no record of a peer-author's wife refusing to become a Lady. U. S. observers compared Mrs. Webb's renunciation to the self-effacement of Mrs. Alfred Emanuel Smith of the U. S. Friends said that one of her motives was to keep visible the famed name of Webb. Friends also said that modest Mr. Webb's acceptance of his title was his second sacrifice of the month for the Labor Party...
Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. gave his opinion last week of bathing beauty contests. It was: "No self-respecting girl wants to be paraded before a multitude and dished up before the public gaze." Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. last week advertised his new girl-show Show Girl. He said: "150 GLORIFIED GIRLS IN THE FLESH AND BLOOD...
...neither a great name taken in vain nor a nom de plume. A casual but curious reader informed Colyumist Phillips that Wilfred John Funk is the name of a 46-year-old, married resident of Montclair, N. J. (Manhattan suburb). Montclair's Funk answers Contributor Funk's self-description in all important particulars, with the added particular that he is Publisher of the large, middle-aged Literary Digest. Publisher Funk last week evaded inquiries but did not deny that Publisher Funk and Contributor Funk are one & the same...
...those days detract from his genius. Herr-Inventor Robert Bosch found a great demand for his product in the U. S. In 1906 he sent two compatriots, Herren Otto Heins and Gustave Klein, to New York to incorporate a U. S. subsidiary. When U. S. efficiency developed the self-starter and brilliant ampere-eating headlights, battery ignition supplanted the magneto in passenger cars. Magneto-maker Bosch therefore turned to trucks, racing cars, motor boats, airplanes, continued old prosperity in new markets...