Word: worshipfully
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...failed. But the chief criticism of the school lies not so much in succumbing to this universal weakness as in the application of the name "Art" to a school strictly vocational in method and purpose. Yale has added more weight to the charges of Dr. Flexner that the chief worship of American colleges is not a cultural education but the dollar...
...Aristide Briand began his lifelong career of pacification. His first great act of statecraft was peacefully to disestablish the Roman Catholic Church while arranging for the continuance of its rites in France. When he first became Premier (1909), M. Briand significantly appointed himself "Minister of Interior and Worship." Ironically in 1910, Aristide Briand who in 1894 had incited a general strike, broke a threatened general strike of French railwaymen, pacified them...
...gloomy, wrathful day, gloomy as the days of the 13th Century friar who cried Dies Irae! Capitalism totters. Socialism? Communism? No, man is corrupt, his society is decadent, even his systems of worship are sterile. . . . There is still God. But are there not many Gods?-the Jehovah of the Fundamentalists, the incense-wrapped God of the Anglo-Catholics, the polite God of the Episcopalians, the companionable God of such new faiths as Dr. Frank Buchman's Groups? There are also many prophets, cultists, purveyors of fancy panaceas to the dejected. They are in the market place...
Despite its sugary sentimentality, lack of restraint, and melodrama, "Happy Landing," the sixth production sponsored by the Professional Players at the Plymouth Theatre, is as amusing as its title is dull. Patterned on Lindberg's meteoric career and his unexampled popularity, it is a satire on American hero-worship and its exploitation. The all-American habit of pulling to pieces and devouring its cynosures is displayed very entertainingly...
...Protestants that God created the world in six days, created a garden of paradise and placed therein the man whom God called "Adam." But in India Moslems despise Hindus, despise Hindu beliefs in a Multitude of Gods, and fight with Hindus in and out of season. Every Moslem must worship God five times every day, but by the end of Ramadan with its intensive worship he feels particularly strongly that there is but One God. Wherefore, Britain feels a duty to stay and keep the peace...