Word: shalt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Centenary. Last week Boston celebrated the 100th anniversary of the birth of George T. Angell, founder and first President of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. Although Deuteronomy 22 :16 contains humane laws for animals, and Deuteronomy 25:4 says: " Thou shalt not muzzle the ox that treadeth out the grain," Massachusetts, in 1868, was treating its dumb animals in a careless or outrageous manner. Mr. Angell, busy lawyer, founded...
RAIN?A powerful and well-acted indictment of a rabid missionary in the South Seas. For three acts the audience squirms with delight while Jeanne Eagels discredits " the eleventh commandment": Thou shalt not commit enjoyment...
Similarly in urging youth to temper its daily conduct with thoughtfulness, it is difficult to escape the form "Thou shalt" and "Thou shalt not". Moral exhortations in these forms are excellent in their way but indigestible when not highly tempered by imagination and especially when administered in large doses. They lose effectiveness in proportion as they increase in number and lack imagination. When a schoolboy hears "My Vacation" spoken of as a "fearsome opportunity of time", he is not apt to be properly terrified...