Word: baptiste
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...soldiers to shed blood in behalf of U. S. liberty. Southern Aristocrat Jefferson openly opposed slavery; Henry Laurens, George Wythe, George Mason, George Washington tacitly did likewise. At Bunker Hill, Peter Salem, Negro, achieved distinction by killing Major Pitcairn. Jacob Bishop, Negro, was one-time pastor of the First Baptist (white) church of Portsmouth, Va. In 1773, in Maryland, two-thirds of those teaching both Whites and Negroes were felons. An escaping slave prior to 1865 wore "a black cloth coat, a high hat, white flannel waistcoat, a checked shirt, a pair of everlasting breeches, a pair of yarn stockings...
...establishment. Of course there were paintings at Tate too-especially, 14 Sargents whose noble canvases have not become so numerous on the art-dealers' shelves as to be in need of much publicity, preceding facile disposal. A notable picture hung was that of the beheading of John, the Baptist, by Puvis de Chavannes. Degas was well represented as well as some brilliant paintings by Bancini, Daumiur, Ingres...
...shells slipped over a panel of golden water, glazed with sunset, it was apparent that this apprehension was not unfounded. The Princeton crew rowed hard; the Washington crew rowed easily; the Princeton coxswain barked excitedly; the Washington, coxswain chanted a beat as slow as a Baptist psalm. At the mile the men of Princeton, tiring, had slipped a little behind; at the finish, six lengths...
Like the University of Chicago, to which John D. Rockefeller Sr. gave millions, Brown University, which educated John D. ("Phi Beta Kappa") Rockefeller Jr., had a clause in its charter requiring that its president be a Baptist. Last week the Brown Corporation abrogated this clause...
However, it elected Baptist Dr. C. A. Barbour, President of the Rochester Theological Seminary, a trustee to succeed the late A. C. Bedford (Standard...