Word: professed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Baptist was an anarchist. We are returning to such a condition, and can seen in religious bigotry, and ignorance, and persecution, a political threat. The basis of all this conservative certitude and attack upon progressiveness is to be favored in the miraculous character of the religious they profess and the sense of providential care and direction under which they flourish. If Jesus is to return in clouds of glory and snatch up Brother Stratton of 57th Street, Manhattan, to serve as his prime minister or grand vizier, these tirades against modern knowledge and its exponents are quite intelligible...
...brought out remarkably well the musical richness of the piece. It must have taken a great deal of courage for a singer with a reputation for artistry such as Mme. Gauthier's to attempt songs which have so long been an object of contempt and ridicule among those who profess a knowledge of the art, but she was amply rewarded by an audience which showed by its enthusiastic applause that she had revealed to it a wealth of color and artistic vigor in American jazz. George Gershwin played the accompaniments for this group and as an encore Mme. Gauthier sang...
...furore in London where the Order had never been heard of. It became known, however, that the Crusaders had been established for two years. The members of the Order are drawn from all classes of society but with the middle class in the ascendant. Like the Freemasons, members must profess belief in a Supreme Being, they must also pledge themselves to the King and the Constitution and to service, self-sacrifice and loyalty...
...deny, or to treat as immaterial, belief in the creed in which at every regular service of the Church both minister and congregation profess to believe, is to trifle with words and cannot but expose us to the suspicion and the danger of dishonesty and unreality...
...question of where the extra men for the three-shift system will come from is one which the steel heads profess to find difficult. They are anxious to have the immigration law altered to admit more immigrants, which would help to keep down the prices of labor and probably decrease the chances of the industry's being unionized. President Grace of the Bethlehem Steel Corporation is one of those most insistent on the need for more immigrants...