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Your opening paragraph under RELIGION is a gem this week (July 11). No denominational paper dares do what you do under that heading: tell all the truth. I wish you could double or treble the amount of space you give. Hypocrisy, cant, superstition are timid of facts. There is no fear for faith in truth...
...Denver's most important 1927 convention were all nerves at 9:30 o'clock at the Broadway Theatre, when C. K. Woodbridge, president of the whole shebang, brought his gavel down with a resounding wallop. And then, while startled lady delegates mumbled prayers and the more timid male admen thought about their life insurance, President...
...These conferences are thus reduced to occasions when the President secretly tells an obedient press what he would like to have printed about himself. . . are now little more than the personal publicity machine of Calvin Coolidge. . . . For a modest and a timid man Mr. Coolidge has a quite extraordinary fondness for the privileges of an autocrat...
...wealthy young clubmen from Manhattan. Ladies in long skirts, with trim shirt-waists that betray an underpinning of steel corsets, straw-hatted, ride to the scene of mobilization on tandem bicycles. Among them is Mary, "San Antonio belle and sweetheart of the regiment" (Mary Astor). For her love, poor timid, countryboy, Bert Henley (Charles Emmett Mack), and wealthy Manhattan clubman, Stewart Van Brunt (Charles Farrell), rival, quarrel, then fight. Their private scrap is too puny, decrees Colonel Roosevelt. Let them bunk, ride, drill, march together through the entire campaign, and make the best...
...siren screeched in the U. S. Treasury Building in Washington. Timid clerks rushed into the corridors, craned quaking necks. Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Dewey was irked. He had ordered all employes to remain in their offices when the burglar siren sounded, so that guns could sweep the corridors clear of thugs, bandits, etc. Last week's screech was only a test case...