Word: words
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...unduly flatter them by publishing their stuff under "Religion." It is too good a word for them...
Such an experiment may be looked upon merely as an amusing episode in the London season, and yet it shows beyond all doubt that in these days of moving pictures and elaborate costume play, true acting still depends on the power and expression of the spoken word...
...site where the cage will probably be built is outside the open end of the Stadium, covering a number of the tennis courts at the eastern end. The donor and engineer were ready to start work this autumn, but lack of definite word from the Planning Board will keep the cage from being started until next spring. It was also considered that work this fall would be in the way of the crowds attending the important football games...
...committee, all mere men, seem to have approached their task of revision with prayer and fasting. They seem to have sensed the truth of the old Italian proverb: "In buying a horse or taking a wife, shut your eyes and commend yourself to the Lord." In asking that the word obey be removed from the marriage service they explain that their purpose is to put the Church in touch with present day life, and then they naively add: "We are thus trying to make the service conform to the truth...
...zeal shown by these eminent gentlemen for conforming to the truth is very laudable, but the surprising thing of course is that this zeal has been so long in manifesting itself. Why was not the word removed from the marriage service long ago? It became obsolete when the caveman's cudgel went out of fashion. For that matter why was it ever put in at all? Of course it found its way in at the instigation of some blundering male. But what man had the temerity to believe that exacting a woman's promise to obey would give...