Word: glorious
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...favor evolution or revolution? A. That's a funny question, coming from an American whose country had a glorious revolution and then a great civil war fourscore and seven years later...
...that famous Fort [Sumter]." He had blocked all Southern conciliation attempts, had succeeded in starting the War Between the States and then laying the blame on the South. But, sputtered Dr. Tansill, the South should not even now think of its "struggle for freedom" as a "lost cause." "The glorious Confederate flag . . . Belleau Wood . . . Patton's crusaders . . , never be furled...
...harassed mother rabbit snapping at a big-eared little rabbit: "Well, if you must know, you came out of a hat." Punch has usually avoided divorce, profanity, violence and prone drunks, always relished outrageous puns (Henry VIII, after a choppy Channel crossing: "Yesterday all was fair, a glorious Sunday, but this sick transit spoils the glory o' Monday...
Despite temporary regressions and stagnation, the history of man has displayed a constant upward spiral. Some day the human race will awaken to the glorious truth, first expressed by Confucius, that "the kingdom of heaven is within you," and that deeds are the vital thing-not belief...
...Protestants know anything, they know that thirteenth chapter-'But now abideth faith, hope, love, these three: and the greatest of these is love.' But our attention ought also to be directed to the fourteenth chapter. In the fourteenth chapter of First Corinthians, following right after the glorious hymn to divine love, St. Paul is terribly concerned about order in the church-not so much ecclesiastical order as intellectual order. And in that chapter he makes this striking announcement about God: 'God is not the author of confusion...