Word: ways
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pretty girl in Vienna, and married her. And he was headmaster once, during the War, when all the able hands were at the front. Believe it or not, he did have children-as he swears on his deathbed, "thousands of them"-and schoolmastering at Brookfield was no mean way to spend a life...
...production finger in any important Broadway pie. But unlike last season, it paid some fancy prices for hits. Abe Lincoln in Illinois was sold to Max Gordon Plays & Pictures Co. Inc. on a cash and royalty basis that may come to over $300,000, set a record. The American Way was sold to Gordon for $250,000. Setting a precedent, The Philadelphia Story was sold to Katharine Hepburn (its star) before it ever opened on Broadway...
...favorites, and the advantages of living according to the four Buchmanite standards of Absolute Honesty, Love, Purity and Unselfishness. The not-quite-absolutely-honest technique has also been to involve newsworthy non-Buchmanites, simply by getting them to agree publicly that the world is in a bad way, that some-thing needs to be done...
...Quite recently I talked to a newspaper friend of mine who is now a priest. I said to him that I wanted to know if there was anything in Catholicism which stood in the way of any person who believed in political and economic progressivism. And my friend smiled and answered: 'Don't you realize that you're a little naïve, Heywood? You like to call yourself a radical, but the doctrines of the Church to which I belong imply so many deep changes in human relationship that when they are accomplished-and they will...
...this campaign of ours we have a strong, practical demonstration of neighborliness and tolerance. How vastly different, by way of contrast, is our situation from that in certain countries overseas where we have been witnessing a racial and religious persecution so cruel as to render life almost intolerable. Is there danger of such racial or religious antipathies crossing the ocean and finding foothold here? I cannot believe it. Yet, from time to time, even in this country, we hear vague, intolerant mutterings...