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...than in the average church. And the contrast in manner between the voluntary worshipers at Harvard and the constrained worshipers at Williams is simply appalling. Harvard men come into the chapel as into the house of God; Williams men, hurried, swarming, newspaper-landen, come into it as into a Bronx Park express...
...prize fights in the pulpit, foot races down the aisles, and circularize through the mail. "If Paul of Tarsus [loud cheers for Paul, 'the first Christian go-getter'] was not above inditing epistles to Thessalonia, I'm not above writing letters to the Bronx." When a belated spark of rebellion lights up Mr. Midge's poor soul, family responsibilities smother it to death. Mr. McEvoy's brilliant lines are aided by effective staging in the "constructivist" technique-spotlighting that reveals, in various quarters and levels of the same stage, several different offices, the Midge parlor...
...scarlet, like flames. When angered, they hissed like escaped steam. Their bodies, thick as a brawny man's, were studded with scales like nail heads. Down their backs ran a jagged ridge of tough "armor plate." First of their kind to know captivity, they were incarcerated in the Bronx Zoo, for which they had been captured by Douglas Burden* of Manhattan, youthful trustee of the American Museum of Natural History...
Sirs: Anent Governor Smith's recent visit to a, certain parochial school up in the Bronx (See TIME, June 28, p. 8, col. 2) and his unusual greeting (or has it developed into a form which might be termed other than unusual) the incident should claim more than a passing significance. Here the child mind is being developed in order that he may become a useful and patriotic citizen...
Alfred E. Smith, Governor of New York, left his state Capital, went to the Bronx, attended the wedding of a niece. From the church the Governor did not go to the wedding breakfast. He went to a parochial school next door where youngsters greeted him, waving the Star Spangled Banner and singing The Sidewalks of New York. The Governor of New York made an address: "Only hard work and hard study can carry the children of the sidewalks of New York, and"-the presidential candidate added-"the children of the country-to success and high honor." Then he went...