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...remain in the old creedal denominations. Celebration. But it was not the motes in their brothers' eyes which inspired the opening sermon delivered by Rev. Paul revere Frothingham Boldly he analyzed: "We want a divine inheritance and a spiritual birthright. To be willing to exchange it for a mess of scientific pottage indicates and Esan-like yearning for the wilderness of doubt. . . . "The Unitarian doctrine has effectively softened and finally transformed the stern theology of New England, as it was meant to do; but let us beware if it softens also the sinews of a social conscience." And forthrightly...
...shadow by the nose-it was a portrait of Admiral Robert E. Coontz, U. S. N., then in Hawaii serving as umpire in the U. S. "war game" (TIME, May 4, 11, ARMY & NAVY). When his picture was finished, the pen began again, sketched some U. S. soldiers at mess under the glaring Hawaiian sun. Six other pictures, traveling 255.85 mi. a minute, were sent from Honolulu and received, 20 minutes later, in Manhattan. The results of this longest wireless photo-transmission were said to be clearer than any obtained in some London-to-Manhattan tests made last fall...
...California player. What was their chagrin when Miss Ryan defaulted in the second round! Nice buzzed. It was another trick of long-legged Lenglen, said loungers. She had used unworthy pressure to have Miss Ryan withdraw so that she, Lenglen, might go undefeated, remain a legend. To crown the mess, they, disgusted, boycotted the tourney...
Getting acquainted with your public is very satisfactory--at meals. It is a great pity that the public cannot come into such intimate contact with actors more often. Now they have only a newspaper acquaintance. I blame the newspapers for the present theatrical mess in New York. They misrepresent us and as a result most people conceive all actors to be only carousers off-stage...
...turned traitor to the German Bolsheviki. In his testimony, he admitted lying in wait several times for General von Seeckt, present head of the Reichswehr, because the Cheka had decided that he "must not only be wounded but killed, since otherwise we shall simply be making a mess of things." He and other comrades, Neumann said, had also discussed ways and means of killing the late Hugo Stinnes, because the Cheka had ordered his "elimination." He admitted having received personally $1,000 from the Soviet Embassy in Berlin, in addition to $25,000 for the purchase of arms; and estimated...