Word: badenock
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...close the dance halls and sinks of iniquity . . . jail Nicholas Murray Butler . . . build a brand new Federal Penitentiary. . . ." He achieved the height of his fame by encouraging conflagrations of emotional Pentacostalism instigated in his church by Girl Evangelist Uldine Utley. During this fervent ferment his son, Warren Badenock Straton, had his soul saved and received the gift of tongues...
Manhattan newspapers, like summer-silly urchins, threw Pastor John Roach Straton of Calvary Baptist Church and his son Warren Badenock Straton, 19, into the lake of metropolitan publicity last week. Their excuse for the "hazing" was Son Warren Badenock's recent epileptiform "baptism by fire of the Holy Spirit" and Father John Roach's quarrel with five of his deacons a fortnight ago (TIME, July 4). The newspapers were "following up" these "stories." It was incumbent upon the Stratons to swim or sink...
...they began paddling into public attention. Hillyer Hawthorne Straton, eldest of the sons and now pastor of the New Berean Baptist Church in Philadelphia, had his father's help in getting ordained in spite of Baptist opposition (TIME, Aug. 2). Last week, "followed up" by Manhattan newspapers, Warren Badenock Straton also had his father to imitate...
Pastor Straton's bed was covered with newspapers, disarrayed. Warren Badenock Straton sat at the foot of the bed reading the newspapers...
...illustration, a composite, falsified photograph of the type which Bernarr Macfadden's hireling's paste together, showed Warren Badenock kneeling in a cathedral-like room. His hands were clasped unctuously, and on his face was an arch and radiant expression. Above him, with right hand upraised, stood his father, austere, sanctimonious...