Word: baptisme
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...fair position to redeem his campaign pledges to the country. This bill proposes a centralization of action and of responsibility, a step eminently valid, and it is certainly a tragic irony which decrees that Mr. McNary, its most avowed foreman in the Senate, should have met his baptism of fame beneath the aegis of the Farm Relief Bill of painful memory...
News that Tsar Boris' devoutly Catholic mother-in-law, Queen Elena of Italy, was rushing to Sofia in her gilded baroque private car caused His Majesty to order a rush-baptism of the babe, Maria Louise, hastily performed in the Palace Chapel by Archbishop Stefan according to Bulgaria's Orthodox rite. Prince Cyril, the Tsar's Catholic brother, met Queen Elena at the frontier, convinced her that a Catholic baptism would have been impossible in view of Bulgarian public opinion. At the Sofia station Queen Elena embraced Tsar Boris, whatever she may think of him. In Rome...
...have just completed my 28th year as announcer at Soldiers Field. That means that I started my announcing in 1904, the year following the baptism of the Stadium, when Dartmouth came down and gave us a damn good licking. Having never missed a game in the Stadium in that period, I have seen more close-up Harvard football than any other living individual. The Crimson sweater that I wear at each game is the same one that I put on for my first game...
...Manhattan the Empire State Building had its official baptism-by-suicide when Frederick Eckert, 33, with a German prayerbook and two religious medals in his pocket jumped from the tower (103rd floor), landed on the 87th floor setback. (In 193, before the building was done, a discharged workman leaped down an elevator shaft from the 102nd floor, landed on the 80th...
...carrying the Word to the ends of the earth. Famed are such pioneers as Adoniram Judson (1788-1850), who put a sign "Is It Pleasing to God?" in his room at Brown University, spent a year and a half in traveling to Burma. Ordained a Congregationalist, he espoused baptism by immersion, became an independent missionary, finally received full Baptist support. He translated the Bible into Burmese, compiled a Burmese grammar and dictionary, suffered in prison, lived for a time in an empty lion's cage with a testament for his pillow, died at sea after building 63 churches...