Word: worshiping
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Religion. The State no longer interferes with the right of adults to worship or believe as they please. All members of the Communist Party, the political oligarchy which governs Russia, must however profess total atheism...
...picture and (in small type, reading left to right) "Big Bill" Edwards. People who called Edwards the Peter Pan of Princeton, who were bored by his after-dinner speeches, who declared that he was at heart a schoolboy who blustered his way through life seeking the loud worship of some irrecoverable football game, such people ate their words the day he stood next Mayor Gaynor. For a maniac, jerking out a pistol, emptied it at New York's good Mayor. "Big Bill" Edwards, for one moment of splendor, got back the glory of the greatest game that...
...features of the flapjack's new reverse are well-known: lectures instead of recitations, written instead of oral examinations, an elective curriculum, no more compulsory worship. Individualism was the keynote. New life entered the law and divinity schools. The libraries were expanded for research. "Virtue . . . duty . . . piety . . . righteousness," were more real words then than now; Dr. Eliot used them often. After 40 years, the name of John Harvard himself was no more deeply graven upon the tablets at Cambridge than Dr. Eliot's when he retired, at 75, "to spend the evening of his life in serenity...
What is a devout pastor to do when he can no longer inspire his flock? What can he say when the President of the U. S. comes to worship at his church, attracts curious thousands, and the sheep listen not to his sermon...
...planning to go into fishing himself in partnership with a man who owned some dories. About three hundred years before, men from the west of England had first sailed into the grey shimmering bay that smelt of woods and wild grape, looking for something; liberty . . . freedom to worship God in their own manner . . . space to breathe. Thinking of these things, worrying as he pushed the little cart loaded with eels, haddock, cod, halibut, swordfish, Vanzetti spent his mornings . . . weighting-out fish...." The fish peddler worried because a few days before, on a fine cool May morning in the year...