Word: utters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last summer (TIME, July 26) one Dexter E. Chipps went to Evangelist Norris' study in the First Baptist Church of Fort Worth, to remonstrate against the evangelist's utterances upon Chipps' close friend, Mayor H. C. Meacham of Fort Worth. Politics, the Ku Klux Klan, Roman Catholicism¶all lay behind the diatribes that Evangelist Norris considered himself called upon to utter from his church rostrum. He had been threatened with death; he believed that angry Mr. Chipps had come to kill him; he, famed for his gunmanship, shot quickly, to be first. Later he learned, with...
Praying Curve. A certain track runs along such a treacherous precipice in the Rocky Mountains that, every time the train crawls along that stretch, passengers, trainmen and engineers utter what prayers are in them. The watchman of this section is a romantically minded youth who writes letters to a young lady under another man's name. One day the young lady ascends the Rockies to visit her correspondent and supposed lover. She is so chagrined at finding the wrong man that the hero has to save the train from being wrecked before the ending can become happy. On the whole...
Before long the old indictment that we are a "nation of economic illiterates" will not apply. Harvard may well be proud of her most recent addition across the Charles and exult in her utter modernity...
...tame; who, in his paroxysms of rage, has massacred hundreds of thousands of his own chosen people, and would often have slaughtered the whole lot if cunning old Moses hadn't kept reminding him of 'what will the Egyptians say about it?' makes one feel utter contempt for the preachers and unfeigned pity for the mental state of those who can retail serious countenance as they per the stories of his peculiar whims, freaks and fancies...
...vanity and frivolity and, worst of all, the terrible self-righteousness of thousands of ruined marriages and lost lives. "He could not indicate the precise point in time at which there was born in his soul the yearning to be another than himself. The tangible experience was this: utter satiety of his own character...