Word: baptiste
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...married an ancient, incompetent Creek Indian named Jackson Barnett. It was no crime for her to hire lawyers, who successfully induced Commissioner of Indian Affairs Charles H. Burke to release $1,100,000 of her husband's royalty oil riches for distribution to herself and the American Baptist Home Mission Society (TIME...
Akin to this experiment was the decapitation of a dog by two other Moscow men. S. S. Brukhanenko and Sergei Chechulin. To the head arteries they connected a pump which forced oxygenated blood to the amputated head, which, like John the Baptist's rested on a plate. The head's eyes moved. They closed when a strong light was flashed at them. The ears wiggled. The tongue ejected a piece of cotton soaked with acid, and swallowed a piece of cheese. For three and a half hours these natural reactions continued. By that time the venous blood became too heavy...
...downpour engulfed them on the way down Pennsylvania Avenue. Sodden and drippy were bunting and flags. But spectators in the stands, huddling under newspapers and umbrellas, cheered plentifully nevertheless. From an upstairs window along the way, Dr. Arthur James Barton, southern Baptist, Chairman of the National Executive Committee of the Anti-Saloon League of America, and a band of prohibitors representing 29 other national organizations-the U. S. Drys, Consolidated (see p. 16)-looked down upon their Wet-Dry President with great satisfaction...
...last week's service the House, taken somewhat unaware, was reasonably full. Two speeches were delivered, one by jovial, wavy-haired Charles Aubrey Eaton, onetime Baptist pastor of John D. Rockefeller's Euclid Avenue Church, Cleveland, now a New Jersey Representative; the other by Democratic Leader Finis James Garrett. The Marine Band played sacred music. The Imperial Male Quartet sang hymns. Chaplain Montgomery prayed at length. House Clerk Page read the roster of the dead: Vaile of Colorado, Madden of Illinois, Sweet of New York, Butler of Pennsylvania, Rathbone of Illinois, Frothingham of Massachusetts, Rubey of Missouri, Oldfield...
...eyed companions of the now Mrs. Barnett busied themselves with papers. They asked Jackson to sign them. He did so by smudging his thumb in ink and across the documents. One of the men (Barnett guessed they were lawyers) later told him that he had given to the American Baptist Home Mission Society $550,000 of his royalty oil account, and a like amount to his wife...