Word: fearlessly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last year, many a Fundamentalist reproached Dr. John Roach Straton, Fundamentalist thunderer, when he invited Uldine to his Manhattan temple to speak. The Bible, they said, forbids women's appearance in the pulpit. Fearless Preacher Straton permitted her to proceed, and she gave a sermon based so fundamentally upon the Ark of the Covenant that it soothed the hearts of the reproachful ones. But later in Madison Square Garden she was charged by atheists with violating the child labor laws by preaching for money...
...only to let him go, abashed, when they found he was their King. For His Majesty a 200-mile motorcycle sprint is only a fair day's run-and 200 miles approximately suffice to cross Belgium from one side to the other in any direction. Beloved, fearless, King Albert of the Belgians usually motorcycles completely unattended. His newest mount is a recently developed British machine of ultra high power and speed...
...matters. You may reject his philosophy as absurd and impossible, but you can not escape, once you have read him, from the powerful and fierce personality that so ruthlessly slashed at Christianity, democracy, feminism, and modern morality, that held up as ideals the Will to Power and the honest, fearless, cruel, yea-sayings superman. Ecce Homo! The critic and destroyer, the builder and the prophet...
Viscount Gladstone's attorney interrupted at this point to read from the works of Viscount Morley concerning Mr. Gladstone: "In these humane efforts at reclamation among fallen women! he persevered all through his life, fearless of misconstruction, fearless of the levity or baseness of men's tongues...
...theory of democracy. The complete absence of a party of opposition, increasing apathy in the ranks of stolid citizenry, the imminent danger of a permanent one-party rule are symptoms of the same sickness as that of which political invective died. Mayor Rogers may rally other joyous wits and fearless spirits to his cause. The future may have an Ariemus Ward, a Josh Billings, a Mr. Dooley yet unborn. It is certainly to be hoped that this is true. For not only is the cool, sour edge of satire a keen tool to political progress, but without it, this business...