Word: gospel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Messiah. By Author Asch's device, the Roman and the Jew were reincarnated in modern Poland, the one a crabbed and Jew-hating scholar, the other a young Jewish translator. Their association results in a third part of the book: a long, emotional fragment of a "lost Gospel" which the scholar, without revealing how he got it, claims was written by Judas Iscariot...
...great majority of Americans are determined to stay out of war, and the statements of leading ministers and educators can only tend to drive them into it. This propaganda is far more dangerous than any emanating from overseas, for the very reason that it is accepted as the gospel truth by many more people. The lofty positions of these men give their words weight beyond their worth, so that they should give long and serious thought to the subject before making any statement. It is especially disquieting that leaders of youth, the college presidents, should have spoken so soon...
...Detroit, where Little Sisters run the fine $1,000,000 Burtha M. Fisher Home, given by one of the famed, pious seven Fisher (bodies) brothers and his wife. Archbishop Edward Mooney said of the sisters: "They teach us, and they have taught us for 100 years, that the Gospel is not Utopian; that if you build charity on faith and hope, it works...
...novel begins with the triumphal entry into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday, ends the following Saturday when Judas has hanged himself after Christ's crucifixion. Like others who retell the Gospel narrative, Author Linklater is seldom as vivid as the original, is often unconvincing when he strays from...
...place of the usual, objectionable mode of dancing, they urge back-to-back waltzing, with gospel hymns in place of the modern, "voluptuous" music. The hymns, they conceded, 'might be played with such rhythms as to be appropriate for the purpose...