Word: plainness
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...that the sacrifices in bodies and blood by Irishmen before the altar of Liberty are not like the successful bloodshed of your human ancestors, the American Revolutionists. I admit the objection. Eamon de Valera is not Benjamin Franklin, and Sinn Feiners are not American Revolutionists. The implication is plain; it tends to explain the CRIMSON's attitude...
...cannot speak their minds out. That is a profound error. All that one needs is the saving grace of common sense, and he can say what he pleases. Some feel that the Church makes too much of theology. On the contrary it probably makes too little of it. A plain and positive teaching on the essentials of the Christian faith is what men are loking for and need. Others feel that the ministry does not offer them a fair and solid living. It is true that its returns at this point are meager, but it is also true that...
...must be permitted to give full and free expression to their own individuality, which can of course only mean their own emptiness." The president of Columbia finds that our whole system of education is pretty well discredited in the public mind, although he does not quite make it plain why a public wandering after false gods should reject an educational system which is headed in the same direction...
...reduced. But the same people also seem ignorantly to expect that taxation can be immediately reduced in proportion. Yet, when we know that about eight billion dollars in Victory notes, war savings stamps, and treasury certificates of indebtedness will fall due in the next three years, it is plain that we must continue a policy of heavy taxation. Besides our regular national expenses, then, we must meet this added war burden...
...entertainment committee consists of the following members: John Edward Kennedy of Jamaica Plain, chairman; John Churchill Newcomb of Jefferson County, Kentucky, Lawrence Wilkinson Rathbun of Woonsocket, Rhode Island, Robert Fessenden Thayer of Brookline, Belden Wigglesworth of New York City, John Mason Brown of Louisville, Kentucky, Garrison Morton of New York City, Edwin Newton Ohl Jr. of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, Phillips Elder Wilson of East Gloucester, and John Hodges of Cambridge...