Word: millenium
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...Christians now believe literally in the imminent fulfillment of Biblical prophecies. Such belief is the "medicine" of religious charlatans, the persuader of profit-taking evangelists, and the consoler of the regular clergy. Where there is social misery, the religious are apt to keep patient, in hopes of the prophetic millenium. (The non-religious are apt to be impatient, in hopes of what they think the economic millenium - socialism, communism...
...chance and give Great Britain over to the mercies of the feminine sex no great excitement would be occasioned in the United States where the same experment did not result in an exodus of housewives from the kitchen to the Capitol. Unfortunately, votes for women have brought no millenium to America nor is it likely that they will bring one to England...
...been the custom, the privilege and the honor, for incoming editorial boards to announce the arrival of a new era--one which, the young hopefuls are fond of asserting, bears close resemblancme to the millenium. The Yale Daily News, however, declares that it is abandoning this egotistic bombast: the new board offers no "elaborate platform"; conservatism will be the watchword, and the new editors will not rashly discard the traditions...
...always been and so it will be until the millenium. Soldiers have said that war was hell, and have awaited eagerly the wars that brought promotions. Statesmen have declared that their particular war was a war to end war, and have returned from signing treaties of peace to sing appropriations for bigger and better armament...
...Cooganing." Charles Spencer Chaplin made Jackie Coogan by co-starring him in The Kid. Therein Jackie ran ahead throwing stones through windows. Charlie followed as a glazier, repaired the windows, reaped comedy pelf. Last week The Kid was shown at the millenium-old Hartz Mountain village of Wernigerode, seat of an academy for hochgeboren young ladies. The young ladies were not allowed to see The Kid, but soon their windows tinkled in fragments as did many another. No glazier appeared, but subsequently one Thanhauser Rothschild, insignificant insurance agent, was arrested and confessed to "Cooganing" the windows after viewing...