Word: youthful
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Oddly enough a major portion of Lawyer Bennett's wealth?estimated at $10,000,000?came as an absolute windfall. He had been one of three zealous Sunday School teachers in his youth, the other two being a young woman and her brother. This three-cornered friendship was lifelong. The young woman married Lumber Tycoon E. B. Eddy. Presently he died. Mrs. Eddy and her brother, when they died, left 1.507 shares (control) of E. B. Eddy Co. to their pious friend "Dick" Bennett...
...Stegg of Manila, P. I., reached Chicago last week to attend the Chicago Methodist Camp Meeting. Quickly he inspected the community, made a conclusion: ''Chicago is the most godless city in the world. . . . The fault lies not with flaming youth, but with men and women in their foolish, fat forties. Forty per cent of Chicago high school girls disapprove of petting. That is better than they did in my day, all of 30% better...
...never been any prohibition of the practice of any form of religious faith in the Soviet union; and every Sunday hundreds of churches in Moscow and thousands throughout the country celebrate services without interference. . . . The Communists are convinced that religion will ultimately die out in Russia because the Soviet youth is being made atheistic by every possible device of education and propaganda while the churches, although free to conduct services, are debarred from carrying on any kind of effective public counter propaganda...
...turns thief, capitalizes his talents to make dumb parrots talk, to visit complaining purchasers in the guise of a muddled old lady while making notes for robbery. Later, when his associates have committed a murder, Echo takes the witness stand as Mrs. O'Grady to save a youth unjustly accused of a crime committed by Echo's partners. Harry Earles, sucking a cigar, appears again in the amazingly sinister role of the murderous midget. Lila Lee sobs convincingly as Echo's girl. Lon Chaney, speaking as ventriloquist, parrot, old lady or Echo, is as successful in disguising...
...Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Micah Clarke, The Hound of the Baskervilles, History of Spiritualism, The Coming of the Fairies); suddenly, of heart disease; at Crowborough, Sussex, England. One of the world's foremost exponents of Spiritualism, he published much information about "summerland," the Spiritualists' hereafter (marriage, cocktails, wine, eternal youth, no childbirth). For the wicked, he believed, there is no Hell, only centuries of waiting "in a grey drab room." According to Sir Arthur's tenets his soul remained in abeyance, earthbound and neuter, for three days. By now it has been admitted to the full sybaritism of "summerland." Declared...