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...also Secretary of a Mission Board, is regarded as one of the greatest churchmen and pulpit orators of this quarter century. He is perhaps most representative of the church-going public. But most of the Council's work has been done by its General Secretary, Charles S. MacFarland. Stoop-shouldered, square-jowled, limping a little, a deeply earnest Christian, he travels indefatigably from state to state, from nation to nation. In 1923, he made 225 speeches at 250 conventions. Last year, he organized the Hugue-not-Walloon celebration, selling $25,000 worth of tercentenary coins, for which...
...claptrap to say. "We will give you the method of science, but we will not stoop so low as to give you any science." Evidently claptrap is contagious, for since when have educators withheld the material body of knowledge from their students? Under German tutelage, universities became gristmills of fact, which ground small the meal of knowledge and then stuffed it into the puppet's head. More recently, educators have begun to recognize that the method of searching out, weighing, and using the facts which life presents to men is more important than any encyclopedia of knowledge. The ability...
Lord Dunsany jocosely boasts himself the most ill-dressed man in all County Meath. He shambles about the Irish countryside, an excessively tall, loose-jointed, rawboned figure, with a heron-like stoop and enormous cranium. He has the simple, eager nature of a child, always ready to converse with voluble intimacy with any casual acquaintance or to fly up in unaccountable excitement over the most trifling pleasure or displeasure. His fairy stories, written rather for grown-ups than for children, have all the imaginative charm of Grimm or Anderson and in addition show the versatility and richness of a more...
Close behind M. Doumergue's, moved two other pairs of distinguished pedal extremities, conveying, respectively, the stoop-shouldered little figure of Edward, Prince of Wales, and the swaying rotund bulk of Ahmed Mirza, recently deposed Shah of Persia. Came other European princes, potentates, diplomats. Came scores of officials, bedight with badges...
...Marian seemed to face Fate with a light, inflexible courage. She only broke down once, when Frank Ellinger threw her over and married-till Captain Forrester's death. Then (he had been her balance wheel), inscrutably weak as she was inscrutably strong, she lost poise -let her charm stoop pitifully to attract such men as the hard, sly, bumptious Ivy Peters. She passed out of Niel's life, leaving him full of sorrow and anger that so inimitable a creature should come to such base uses. Later he heard she had married again-a rich, cranky old Englishman...