Word: spokes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...forestall any Japanese assertion of belligerent rights to search and seize merchant ships. All this added up to just about the ablest set of moves Chinese could possibly make to stir the moribund League to action, and stirring were the words of Dr. Wellington Koo, although he never once spoke of "war": "Intoxicated by his last conquest, the invader [Japan] is bent upon ruthless slaughter and wanton destruction. The lives of 450,000,000 people are at stake. . . . The Japanese forces invading Chinese territory show utter disregard for all the rules of international law. The law of morality gives place...
Last week in Our Lady of Lebanon Church in Brooklyn, N. Y. Catholic worshippers heard Mass sung in Old Syriac or Aramaic, the language Christ supposedly spoke, by a bearded prelate who looked more Jewish than Catholic. He was Most Rev. Cyril George Dallal. 60, Archbishop of Mosul, head of the Syrian Rite of the Roman Catholic Church, shepherd of 90,000 Christians who live among the 1,000,000 Mohammedans of Iraq. He had just arrived in the U. S., to tour cities in which live Syrian Catholics. How many such there are, no U. S. prelate seemed...
...tragic, while Tony was whole and young in the cells of his body. ..." When Maurice finally caught on and slapped her face, she decided definitely to ship him back East alone. Meanwhile she determined to keep the "psychic" status quo of her relationship with Tony, who, although he "never spoke of love," showed unmistakably that he could wait. "Indians," says Mabel Dodge, "burn continuously with a hard, gemlike flame but they know how to bank their fires...
Last Sunday Friend Jones spoke to the Conference and the world on an international radio hookup. Said he. "Quakerism as a way of life partakes of a universal spirit. . . . It is a movement at heart mystical, i. e., seeking fellowship with God. . . . Quakers . . . are bound to keep humble and to recognize their littleness. The Quaker philosophy of life sees in a human spirit something that of all things in the universe, is most like that ultimate reality we call God, Who is Spirit. Spirit like ours cannot come from anything else than Spirit...
...Senator James John ("Puddler Jim") Davis, director general of the Loyal Order of Moose, spoke to a Moose convention in Chicago. Said he: "One of the most significant developments . . . in the last quarter of a century is the apartment house. Few influences make the average person more superficial, nonchalant, and non-social." In Washington, D. C. he lives in a mansion...