Word: baptiste
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Rosalie Summerfield married Herbert Day Lamson at Exeter Aug. 13 and set out immediately for Shanghai, China, where he will become member of the faculty of Shanghai Baptist College...
Still more incredible to Germans is the fact that Mr. S. Parker Gilbert, a young New Jersey Baptist who took his B. A. at Rutgers only two years before the World War began, now sits fiscally enthroned over Germany as Agent General of Reparations. Beside 34-year-old Seymour Parker Gilbert such financiers as John Pierpont Morgan, 59, of 23 Wall Street, loom as fiscal gaffers. Yet there are among active U. S. fiscal titans men of a youthful middle age. For example, Clarence Dillon, of Dillon, Read & Co., is 44. Mr. Dillon is of course the enfant terrible...
...what. In the South minor absurdities are soon laughed, or ejaculated, out of existence. And then, Editor Marshall Ballard of the oldest afternoon paper* in the South is no common editor. He is an intellectual roughneck, of the H. L. Mencken type but with interests more cheerful than Baptist-baiting and with membership in no mutual-admiration societies. His cerebral inheritance is from the stock that bred Chief Justice John Marshall of Virginia. He acquired a scientific background at Johns Hopkins. His breadth of literary background is suggested by a monster, high-ceilinged library in his big airy house...
...troubles, of all kinds. Finally, there is gentle, whimsical accuracy of detail, in few words-how little mules trot; an Italian undertaker "ostentatiously piddling through his ornate futilities"; an executive's comfort in his row of pearl-topped desk buttons; a kitty named John the Baptist...
Hillyer H. Straton (son of loud-speaking Roach Straton), who heard "the trumpet call of God's messengers," was ordained a Baptist minister...