Word: take
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...situation in Ohio has been well handled by State militia whose orders were to relieve suffering, prevent violence, take no sides. In Pennsylvania, however, Governor John B. Fisher continued to be inactive and uncommunicative...
...still this latter protest Sir John Simon offered, last week, to take Seven Wise Indians into his company of Seven Wise Britons. The Indians, he proposed, could be elected by the Indian Legislative Assembly; and he pledged that they would receive in the Commission "equal status throughout the investigation...
...there is anything inherently comic about Irish individuals and Hebrew individuals when placed in boisterous juxtaposition, this film, like its predecessor, The Cohens and Kellys, is no doubt hilarious. The previous picture not only was, in the opinion of many, a riot; it also caused violent scenes to take place in some of the theatres where it was shown. People threw tomatoes at the screen and at each other. The sequel is less likely to precipitate...
...with, as it were, his left hand while he commits philanthropy with his right, the man is a hypocrite, and the organization which accepts his bounty is a partner in his hypocrisy? A religious issue was immediately raised. Said the Northwestern Christian Advocate: "Can it [the Anti-Saloon League] take the money without compromising, in the public mind, the individual and collective moral sincerity of the churches which compose it? Frankly...
...others, he also builds up his own and so has few spiritual worries. 4. It is a prayerful life and therefore 'his nerves are at rest.' 5. It is independent ; 'one can rise at any hour one pleases,' fix one's own office hours, take days off ad libitum. 6. It is honored; he and his family are respected and deference is paid to his opinions on all sorts of subjects. 7. It is fairly well paid; minimum net salary about $3,000 in most (Episcopal) dioceses. 8. It has permanence of tenure; clergymen (Episcopal...