Word: old
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This is TIME'S 26th Christmas, an occasion for rejoicing-and for sending all of you, for all of us, my best wishes for a merry, old-fashioned Christmas...
...bare little church, with its severe, varnished interior, its six plain glass windows, its 17 pews, was jammed, as always, with Americans and their children in their Sunday best. The tall, 68-year-old pastor took his text from Matthew 2:1: "Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the King, behold, there came wise men from the east to Jerusalem . . ." The minister laid down his Testament, and began his sermon...
...Prophet Micah in the Old Testament called Bethlehem small compared with other towns; but it had a notable history, even before his prophecy that from it would come 'The Shepherd of Israel' . . . The wise men of Matthew's account may have been reluctant to leave the capital city, Jerusalem, at the direction of the scribes, and journey eight miles further to this modest village. But though they left Herod and his palace behind them, they went on and found indeed the genuine Prince of the House of David...
...admiral. Then, mysteriously, the board was reconvened and ordered to do its work over again. When it had finished that time, Burke's name was not on the list. It had been replaced by the name of Captain Richard P. Glass, Navy Secretary Francis Matthews' 51-year-old aide, who would be retired from service if he were passed over for promotion...
...walked across the Square--colored lights, and old rummies with tin pails asking for dimes and quarters, and all the stores leering out in the darkness, bright windows like dragons' jaws to eat money; money, money and that's Xmas. There's no such thing as Christmas. Into the Yard; lights here meant that guyes were going on studying or drinking or talking, whether it was Christmas or Mother...