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...attentive Uldine surveyed the aristocratic timbers in the roof of the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church, Manhattan, perhaps she concealed a flitting thought of the first time she had heard almost identical words???from the lips of a certain Aimee Semple McPherson, in Fresno, Calif., three years before. Uldine had entered the tabernacle with her blind grandfather, against her will. The pair had started for the girl's dancing school (she was thinking of entering the movies) but when it was found to be closed that afternoon, grandpappy?hearing choral voices across the street?suggested attending Aimee's revival meeting. They...
...tune, which orchestras will play all spring, and phonograph records will spill into long summer evenings, and which, in the autumn, the hand-organs will trundle through the streets to burial merits no description. And the words???like the words of "All Alone", like the words of "Remember", like the words of all Mr. Berlin's songs except, possibly "I'm a K. P."?are exactly the words one would expect a waiter in Nigger Mike's Cafe to write, in a trickly moment, on a beer-stained menu, behind the nickelodeon...
Applause. World-traveler, world-organizer, Christian statesman John R. Mott? approached last week the Continent of Australia. Meanwhile reports of his brief stop-over in Japan reached the U. S. It was learned that never had he been so warmly welcomed. Daily papers hung upon his words???they were words of optimism for the world and Christianity. Crowds clattered to his few public appearances. Delegations solemnized "ave's" and "vale's." Freedom of cities was bestowed upon him. And upon him was bestowed the "Freedom of the Empire." (For another view of Christianity in Nippon, see JAPAN...
...Assembly, said he, was nothing but "words, words, words??? which means, in plain English...
...reduce and equalize taxation, to provide revenue and for other purposes" as printed, containing the text of the previous tax law with interpolations of the proposed changes, came to about 85,000 words???the size of a small novel...