Word: worship
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...film aims at the portrayal of a country's worship for their leader in a time of oppression. When their god falls for another man's wife with the weakness of any love-stricken being, their trust in him is shattered. That they should feel thus seems only natural, but the picture tries to make the situation highly dramatic. Does Parnell betray Ireland or Ireland Parnell? That is the question. The result is a hopelessly wishy-washy conflict between mass admiration and the illegal love of a party champion. With both sides in a deadlock, the script solves its problems...
...lucrative operations, including a garage. Temple Church was as homeless and penniless as any evicted tenement family, but it had kind neighbors. Temple Emanu-El, San Francisco's largest synagog, offered the use of its building on Sundays. A small Methodist church offered the Templers a place to worship in between regular services. And San Francisco's most vigorous Congregational church made what Temple's pastor called an offer of "marriage." Temple accepted. Last Sunday for the first time Methodists mingled with Congregationalists in First Church (2,500 seats), downtown near the swank St. Francis Hotel...
...informal, magazine-serial style and lack of much serious attempt at character analysis keep this work from the ranks of lasting literary worth, but it should endure as source material, as new light thrown upon the character of Wilson, who, when the occasional hero worship and sentimentality of the book is brushed aside, still looms through it as a great figure...
...hours later, when due rites ha been observed, Japanese had 1,148 more gods to worship, the spirits of those who died last year fighting in Manchukuo. This new battalion brought the total ( Japan's deified warriors...
...church in one city, but which can travel around to every parish and mission in the diocese. Such a chair is rather useless if it merely provides a place for the bishop to sit. It must be surrounded with other essentials and other people. An altar for worship, books for study; things of beauty to inspire; tools for work; pictures of society, the world, and the Church to challenge. These elements . . . can make a Cathedral which will be of real use to the diocese provided it is able to go to the people who need it most...