Word: amenities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...London a solemn convention of British church musicians was admonished by the Most Rev. William Temple, Archbishop of York, to stop ending hymns with "Amen." Said the beefy, chuckling Archbishop: "I would plead that we should get out of the evil habit. If the tune is a good one, it comes to an end by itself. To put an 'Amen' afterward is redundant-I think it is rather a bore...
Jesuit Sullivan publicly denounced Within the Gates for its "sympathetic portrayal of the immoralities described, and even more so the clear setting forth of the futility of religion as an effective force in meeting the problems of life." A hearty ''Amen" went up from the Catholic Action Society and the Legion of Decency. A Methodist and a Universalist official also nodded assent. Yet the Puritanical Watch & Ward Society, which ran Eugene O'Neill's Strange Interlude out of Boston in 1929, coolly doubted if O'Casey's work was "bad enough to be banned...
...Amen and amen! TIME-reader D. J. Foss is only voicing what I believe is the honest sentiment of most Christian ministers and a great many Christian laity...
...name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost. Amen...
...flying squad of strikers tried to prevent workers from entering the Chiquola Mill. The workers argued for nearly an hour, suddenly started shooting, killed six strikers, wounded 15. Three days later a crowd of 5,000 strikers and strike sympathizers assembled on the field of battle. Amid shouts of "Amen!" and "Praise the Lord!" the Rev. James Myers of Manhattan, Industrial Secretary of the Federal Council of Churches, delivered the funeral oration. "These men," he cried, "were instruments of Jesus Christ in His work of love. . . . They died to make industry Christian. ... It is a test of Christian unselfishness...