Word: sundays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...York's tabloid Daily News roared that the Supreme Court, "like Pontius Pilate . . . has washed its hands . . . This stinking affair has disgusted tens of millions of us." The News admonished Congress to get busy with remedial legislation. And Ohio's Senator John Bricker telegraphed to every Sunday paper in his home state his renewed determination to fight for his Bricker amendment, which would "make the Constitution supreme over the conflicting provisions of any treaty or executive agreement...
Desires (at the Brattle Theatre this Sunday and Monday). A sensitive German film about a ballerina who is addicted to morphine...
Read with interest your June 3 article concerning Protestants and the Church of Scotland in the early 17th century. Jenny Geddes threw that "cutty stool" towards the head of my distant, illustrious relative, Dean James Hanna, who was reading the Collect for the Seventh Sunday after Trinity. It was July 23, 1637, and the people in St. Giles excitedly awaited the service book, which had been revised and "stamped" by Archbishops Laud and Wren. Its sponsors chose the most explosive hour possible. Thus, the infamous Jenny hurled the stool (see cut) and cried: "How dare you to say 'mass...
Modern Britons know better than to pack up their troubles in their old kit-bags. Instead, more than 130,000 suffering souls each year write, telephone or wire their woes to the cockney-sharp Daily Mirror (circ. 4,723,131) or its scandal-breathing sister, the Sunday Pictorial (5,709,893). Encouraged by occasional black-boxed invitations in both tabloids (DON'T WORRY ON YOUR OWN), Mirror readers address their problems to one Philip Wright, while the Pictorial asks the woebegone to confide in its John Noble...
...received three cards: one from a dear old lady who lasn't been to church in 50 years, one from a total stranger whom we can't reach and who won't call back, and one from a devout 15-year-old girl who faithfully attends Sunday school every week here. I've been criticized by some for not cooperating; ten of my parishioners have spoken to me about it. People are bewitched by the aura of Madison Square Garden, they are lifted by the general upsurge; then they come to the local church and find...