Word: stolen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chicago, the Pastor of the Edgewater Presbyterian Church was overjoyed to notice that every Sunday there were fewer empty seats. He grew angry when he discovered that Church Janitor George Wedell had gradually stolen 219 chairs, sold them for 29? apiece...
This slothfulness can arise only from ignorance of the size of the evil. The tutoring poison has permeated the whole organism; it leaves little untouched. Examinations are no test of knowledge when the examined have had the questions spotted or stolen for them in advance by academic hijackers and have been crammed with the answers. An acceptable thesis means nothing when the material has been organized or the whole paper has been written by a tutoring school. A course credit is no fitting reward when the recipient has not turned a hand to secure it. A diploma is a valueless...
...chemist named Heinrich Goldschmiedt, who salvaged it from Vienna's oldest synagogue before that edifice, like the others, was fired. The Vienna Jewish community instructed Chemist Goldschmiedt to present the Torah to an orthodox synagogue in the U. S. Without such instruction, the Torah would have been considered stolen property by good Jews. Mr. Goldschmiedt gave the scroll, wrapped in a striped prayer shawl, to Manhattan's Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun, which had it examined meticulously by a scribe, lest a jot or a tittle had been added or erased. The Congregation planned shortly to have it reconsecrated...
Five years later Papa Haydn was dead and his head was off-stolen from his grave by ardent phrenologists. When the loss was discovered and the culprits pressed for its return, they surrendered a skull which passed for Haydn's. But it was not. Like a historic football, the real article was kicked around Austria for 75 years until it landed in a glass case in the Vienna Society of the Friends of Music. The Esterhazy family (on whose estate Haydn lived and was mostly buried) announced that until the skull was returned, no one could have access...
...name. Non, pas un son. During the course of his wanderings in and out of hotel doors (and windows) he happens upon the fourth richest girl in America and kindly offers her a place to sleep. Believe it or not, out of this emerges a fashion show, a stolen necklace, a happy marriage, and the Yacht Club Boys. From any technical point of view, the picture is worthless; but for a tired Harvard man, just having staggered through a bitter examination period and not inclined to be critical, the very inanity of the whole should prove a welcome relief...