Word: strenuous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Immersion. It became known that at the annual session of the Northern Baptist Convention in Washington, D. C. (May 25-30) a strenuous attempt will be made to define a Baptist Church as one composed of immersed persons. This would exclude Dr. Harry E. Fosdick's church, now abuilding (TIME, Feb. 22). Most Christians these days are baptized symbolically by a few drops of water. The Baptist Church advocates total im mersion of the convert in water, either in natural surroundings as in the River Jordan, or in a pool in a church...
...able and how energetic she is may be judged by the number of her activities. Like her elder brother, Theodore, she has led a strenuous life, even to the present time when she is 64. In 1912 she worked for her brother and the Progressive party, in 1916 for Hughes, and in 1920 after supporting General Wood for the Republican nomination, she campaigned for Senator Harding, advocating nationalism instead of internationalism, economy instead of extravagance. Her interests range from poetry to politics. Her pen has been active as well as her tongue, produced in 1912 The Call of Brotherhood...
...songsters, who organized shortly before Christmas, are beginning preparations for a strenuous season in the spring...
...they clap on and whisk off as their personalities exchange ascendancy. Productive of a wide gamut of emotions and effective for about half of the 13 scenes, this trickery becomes a dizzying harlequinade at the last. Leona Hogarth (Margaret) and William Harrigan (Billy Brown) cope very successfully with their strenuous parts, both masked and unmasked. Anne Shoemaker is bravely understanding in the all but unstageable mask of Cybel, prostitute and symbol of Earth...
...Lapses of 1910. Fifteen other laugh-provoking books he wrote* perforce, many of them as his wife failed. The public knew not his private life; demanded laughs; got them. Last week he let it be known that he would devote his fortune and his writing ability to forwarding a strenuous campaign for research in cancer or its prevention. He will probably act through the British Society for the Control of Cancer, which has branches in all the dominions...