Word: things
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...once in his proud youth at the feet of Gamaliel-never letting intellectual pride smother the pure flame of Christ's love; ending his days, near the time of Rome's burning, in humble age, saying: "I am only an old man, to whom one day a thing of wonder happened, and who has gone over the world seeking people to tell it to. . . ." The Book of Acts is as full of names as a map is full of cities and out of ten scores of names Bonn Byrne makes vivid people- deep-chested Barnabas; Caiaphas, the blue...
...hands of "the richest man in Massachusetts" lie the lives of two Radicals. On this man who has expressed his "thorough belief" in capital punishment as "the only thing to check wanton crimes of violence" rests such hope of pardon as two men may have who are condemned to be electrocuted for murder. Believing that trial judges should be "no mere moderators or referees," but should "guide and control" inquiries, he is now asked, in effect, to reverse a judicial decision when such a reversal will be universally interpreted as reflecting upon a member of the Massachusetts judiciary. For only...
...have never known a thinking man who did not believe in God. . . . Science without religion obviously may become a curse rather than a blessing to mankind, but science dominated by the spirit of religion is the key to progress and the hope of the future. . . . The most important thing in the world is a belief in the reality of moral and spiritual values. The second is a belief in the spirit and the methods of Galileo, of Newton, of Faraday, and of the other great builders of this modern scientific age-this age of the understanding and the control...
...audience). Said a more facetious one: "Carnegie Hall was sold out two ways." Critic Olga Samaroff of the Post compared the symphony to a gargantuan bull-fiddle that a medieval potentate had created-an instrument requiring a team of asses for transportation, a squad of musicians for performance, a thing distinguished only by freakiness. The stately Times disdainfully neglected to mention the concert in its critical column at all, rating it simply a news story, another sensational sideshow of the arts. The sophisticates or neo-sophisticates of Manhattan went, heard, were unimpressed, made no demonstration at all. The general attitude...
...call these writers merely imitators is to do them an injustice," he continued. "I have to fight the thing myself. Often, I go out of my way, avoiding words I would otherwise naturally use, to try not to suggest Mencken. I admire Mencken very much, but I know he has his faults. What I write, I feel to be a sincere and original effort, not an attempt to follow a path someone else has opened...