Word: virginities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...lady is Lanice Bardeen; her home, a New England college town; her "Work," painting and writing under the genteel urban sponsorship of her Cousin Pauline, a sparse-bosomed virgin "intensely moved" by Abolition, parlor feminism and the Great Minds of the day. Lanice has "evinced genius" in articles for Godey's Ladies' Book, and Cousin Pauline burns to enroll her among the Great Minds-profound Mr. Emerson, droll Dr. Holmes, dowdy Mrs. Stowe (Harriet Beecher), majestic Professor Longfellow...
...with rebuking all disputants in general for intolerance, evil-speaking, misjudgments and unwarranted publication of slanders. It transferred the responsibility for unrest in the Presbyterian Church to well-known causes such as the War, modern science, the mechanical age and lack of home training. It reaffirmed belief in the virgin birth of Christ and other Fundamentalist tenets but held "that the Presbyterian system admits of diversity of view when the core of truth is identical." It asked for the commission's continuance for another year to study the constitutional questions involved?i.e., delayed decision in the matter...
Leader Clarence Macartney fiercely attacked it because it did not specifically condemn the New York Presbytery for having licensed a preacher who doubted the virgin birth. Thereupon, his brother, Rev. Albert Macartney, spoke up: "The only trouble with him [Clarence] is that he is not married. If Clarence would only get married there would be more harmony in the church and he would not have so much time to worry over other people's theology...
...Thomas presumably rotates in his sepulchre during a lively scene wherein the Virgin Queen's bailiffs attempt to arrest Jack, knock him senseless, and are then set upon by Kate with such vigor that she is eventually overpowered in a state described as "mother naked...
...angel and a Virgin have gone to Detroit to live. Created by the chaste, cloistered brush of Fra Angelico in the 15th Century, they have come down the years unblemished, staying long in England and more lately in Manhattan. Their two panels form an "Annunciation" that is unquestionably the finest of Fra Angelico's work to be found in the U. S. today. Their former owner, Carl W. Hamilton, received a quarter of a million for them both from Edsel Ford, who, sailing for Europe just then, left them hanging in public for all Detroit...