Word: ark
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Walker, eminent British surgeon, put his faith in the gods of Harley Street: scientific method and a good bedside manner. Off duty, he indulged his yen for the fanciful in a voyage to India, a flyer in Paraguayan railway shares, a children's book about Noah's Ark. The strains of 20th century life left him wishing, now & then, for a good latter-day ark. In 1923, a friend startled him by announcing that "a small group of people now in London . . . has started building one." When Walker asked for the new Noah's name...
...prophet! Is he saint or maniac? You'll never forget Shem, battling against the fire in the blazing hold; or Ham rescuing Japheth from the maddened gorilla they dare not kill! . . . Marvel at Lassie as she rounds up the escaped leopards fighting on the roof of the ark...
...school-house in the mountains of Virginia. Charles Wesley will preach twice next Sunday, repeating the same service, in the state penitentiary in California. Dr. R.A. Torrey, the famous Presbyterian preacher, will speak next Sunday in the parlor of John Farmer, R.F.D. 6, Pea Creek, North Fork, Ozark County, Ark...
...Best Policy. In Hot Springs, Ark., after Moonshiner Martin Kizzar hunted up a tax collector and paid $73.50 on a batch of homemade whiskey, he was arrested for making illegal liquor, put on probation by the judge, who ruled that Kizzar was too honest to be jailed...
Budenz was scheduled to speak on Communism, but he led with a strange introduction by dedicating the speech to the Ark of the Covenant and the Virgin Mary. He hoped that his speech would increase the audience's fervency in worshipping the Virgin. These words were spoken in hushed tones, but then Louis Budenz opened...