Word: themes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Love Hour. Another aged theme works overtime to entertain and does not make the incline. A rich man marries a shop girl and the villain tries to get her to divorce him. Love triumphs...
...sermon was by the Bishop of Winchester. His text, Matthew 4:17, declared the "imminence of the Kingdom of God." His theme etched a contrast between old church councils which debated dogma and this conference which concerned itself with the practical good which Christianity should attempt to achieve in the world today; his crescendo, "the sovereignty of Jesus in everything pertaining to human affairs." The Patriarch of Alexandria uttered the benediction...
...blame for all Britain's economic ailments at the door of the Government's gold standard policy, a determined attack on Chancellor of the Exchequer Winston Churchill's financial policy was launched by Laborite Lees-Smith, an economist. The attack followed the usual technical theme of stating that the Chancellor was conserving the gold standard by an embargo on foreign and colonial loans, which, of course, means that Britain cannot, under existent conditions, stimulate trade without granting credits in the shape of loans. This accusation of a false policy was interesting for the clear-cut reply which...
...theme was: The American people have little right to complain about our economic situation during the year...
...expression which this becoming action took is not without a body of precedent. History records that certain men, variously disguised, have attended their own funerals or ironically watched a "double" substituting as bridegroom. Similarly romance never wearies of the old theme of lovers masquerading under the habiliments of the opposite sex. Even Achilles, before he was old enough to assumes a title role in the Trojan War, spent an undetected, if precarious youth among the princesses in the royal megaron. The chronicles of every age, indeed, narrate the successes of those who have effected such impersonations...