Word: creationism
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...unalterably ordained that a clergyman of that religious body should invariably be a pompous and platitudinous ass. Mr. Shaw and Mr. Faversham, being men of the world and not mere dramatists, know better; and the gentle, witty, tolerant prelate of Mr. Shaw's fancy and Mr. Faversham's creation is, or should be, one of the really great figures of our contemporary drama. The actor's conception of the part really cannot be praised too highly. In the first place, it is a role essentially suited to a great actor, not a star, but an actor. Though the play consists...
...creation of a volunteer force of raw recruits will necessitate a large number of officers, and these officers must be trained in schools similar to the unit established here. Members of the University, by joining this training unit, will be given the necessary instruction to fit them for commissions, and the advantages of such an intensive training over that obtained by enlisting in a volunteer force or in the militia are evident. Men who have an opportunity to be trained for officers should by all means render this more difficult service rather than enlist in the ranks...
...such subjects as the Permanent Court of Arbitration, the proposed Judicial Arbitration Court, Good Offices and mediation and Commissions of Inquiry, as treated in the "Conventions for the Pacific Settlement of International Disputes," adopted by the first and second Hague Conferences, and in the "Draft Convention Relative to the Creation of a Judicial Arbitration Court," agreed to by the second Hague Conference...
...mean that Mr. Sanborn has forgotten to be a poet entirely; the lines I have quoted prove at least his good intentions, and I shall try presently to show that he has accomplished something besides the creation of crazy images. But we should have to look in vain among the ultra-brilliant conceits of Miss Lowell or the adjectival debauches of Mr. John Gould Fletcher for anything as incomprehensible as these lines from "Elevation...
...traditional ten-day holiday which has existed as a ten-day holiday from the creation of the world and the Board of Overseers, and will continue to exist as such although the seven heavens fall. Already the exultant van of the home ward-bound army, those who live somewhere west of Chicago, has begun the long trek. Today the last man who has a home and money will leave...