Word: worded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rejected the Franco-U. S. peace pact which Mr. Herrick himself brought back from France before he collapsed in health (TIME, July 4). In a stirring plea for this pact Poet-Statesman Claudel cried: "Casual thinking people, speaking of the proposal, have said: 'It is nothing but words. . . . Can you stop war with paper?' . . . Well, words are great things. It is written: 'In the beginning was the Word. . . . I remember, too, some general declarations, some pieces of writing, which were well worth the paper they were written on. . . . I remember the Declaration of Independence...
...been talking of that inexorable Law, that destiny which had removed at one fell swoop all of our tutors. The friendly handclasp, the eyes that searched our own, were gone. Should we ever be able to talk together again? And we spoke of getting a word across the Infinite, as much as anyone can speak of such a nutty idea...
...books varies widely. In the light of this anomaly, the rejoicings of the publishers Tuesday, at the convention of their National Association, is not conclusive in the examination of America's culture. They felt, however, that the millennium is approaching, and took for their keynote the familiar word "prosperity", the prosperity that leads people to buy books if it does not make them read. The woman who in Addison's day filled her library with the worthwhile books done in wooden blocks with deceptive backs, can now afford the actual volumes. Whether she finds time or inclination to read them...
Anxious to lift the conversation to a higher plane, a lady from a Boston paper inquired whether Sir Thomas thought that jazz had affected the culture and life of manhood, "in the deeper sense of the word...
Evangelist Moody was born in 1837, became a shoe-seller, then an ardent saver of .souls. He hammered on the word of God as if it had been a heel-peg, with, determination, with insistence, with enormous vigor, but without superfluous gesticulation. Said D. L. Moody, early in his career: "... I wouldn't let a day pass without speaking to some one about their soul's salvation . . . There will be 365 in a year that shall hear the gospel from my lips." With Ira David Sankey, who sang hymns, he toured the U. S. and England, giving...