Word: attendant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Columbia University, former Secretary of State James F. Byrnes told Aiken County, S.C. high-school graduates that the phrase "you-all" was good English-if it is used as Southerners use it, in the plural. Said Byrnes: "There is nothing which irritates me quite so much as to attend the theater in New York and hear an actor . . . impersonate a Southerner and, in addressing an individual...
...balloons and lollypops, the squad, whose hats will have red bands, expects to wear white and khaki short pants. Yesterday's opener of the Sixth Reunion was spent at the Essex County Club in Manchester, with sports in the afternoon and dinner at 7 o'clock. Class members will attend Memorial Church at 11 o'clock today and a buffet luncheon including wives has been slated for 1 o'clock...
...Frank Buchman's "Oxford Group," which of late years has called itself MRA (Moral Rearmament), was apparently winning other pivotal Chinese adherents. In Nanking last week, Kuomintang Party Boss Chen Li-fu, a devoted Confucianist, said that he hoped very much to attend the Buchmanites' annual U.S. convention this month, in Hollywood...
There were 9,525 Messengers in Memphis last week-the largest number of delegates ever to attend an annual Southern Baptist Convention. High on the agenda: the choice of a successor to President Louie De Votie Newton, a fundamentalist in his religion but a wide-eyed Russophile in his politics. The convention picked a home-town boy for the job: Dr. Robert Greene Lee, 61, of Memphis' Bellevue Baptist Church, the largest white Baptist congregation east of the Mississippi. He is famed for his preaching-especially for his spellbinding sermon, "Pay Day Some Day," on King Ahab...
...flock of more than 200 young Christian scavengers who faithfully attend his Sunday School, Ye Yun Ho is presently engaged in a campaign to teach them the use of soap and water. Believing that cleanliness is next to godliness, he has been cutting cakes of soap from the relief packages into small pieces and leading his charges down the embankment from the church to the Han, where, he says, he is making slow but recognizable headway in teaching them the blessings of a daily bath...