Word: states
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...after that, as the school year books say, comes life; and long before that have come gentlemen, successful in business, to guide the graduate from the groves to the market-place. Some will be bond salesmen, and wax financial in the company of State Street's rulers; some will find their end and aim behind a Woolworth red front; some will be realtors, though of course never Babbits. But enough of business pure: romance, too, has a word in what the graduate shall do. Hollywood, even from an administrative office, allures: but by the tropics the palm is held most...
...Quadrennial General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, being held in Kansas City, a resolution was introduced to effect not merely the long-discussed union with the Methodist Episcopal Church South but also with Presbyterian and Congregationalist Churches. This resolution was passed unanimously by the Committee on the State of the Church; when presented to the entire congress of Methodist potentates, it was passed again by a vote of 852 to 3. The proposal concerned 55,000 pastors, 60,000 churches, 35,000.000 human souls...
Said Dr. Daniel L. Marsh. President of Boston University and head of the Committee on the State of the Church: ". . . One of the most significant things done by any religious body in a long time...
...Woman Tempted. Vera Countess Cathcart, who was ousted from the U. S. by the Department of State because she was full of "moral turpitude," once wrote a novel called The Woman Tempted. It has now come to the U. S. in the form of a British film. It is not immoral, though it depicts a very bad London society woman who steals a friend's fiance and drives him to suicide. In the end, justice is done...
...service elevator, the aviators now visiting Boston will have memories of a trip that was exciting if not always comfortable. Not that theirs is an exceptional case, for the past year has given the public many victims, but even an "annus mirabilis" with repeated offerings of heroes cannot state its appetite...