Word: baptiste
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...While Baptists from 18 states, representing some 3,000,000 coreligionists (Southern Baptist Convention at Houston, Tex.), called beer and light wines the "inveterate enemies of the human race"; proclaimed unswerving loyalty to the 18th Amendment and hostility to any changes in the Volstead Act; resolved to reject "every theory, evolution or otherwise," which teaches that man is not the "especial creation...
...Manhattan, the American League of Professional Women held a music forum luncheon last week. Two guests of honor were given the same topic: "What shall we do about jazz?" They were Dr. John Roach Straton, fundamentalist Baptist, and Marguerite d'Alvarez, Peruvian contralto. Dr. Straton rose first, bit off his words, said loudly, severely...
...only last Saturday that I was converted to Methodism by a lady who did so want me to get the "good things" at Harvard. And any religion which will help toward a cheap and sudden attainment of the "Good things" is immediately mine. Though at heart I remain a Baptist on the hard shell a Vermont Baptist deo volente...
...Baptist Church has organized the Lord's Day Alliance, and under the guidance of Rev. Harry L. Bowlby is moving heaven and earth to wipe out by civil statutes every ounce of pastime and pleasure of those weary and toiling masses who more and more are looking to Sunday as a day of healthful recreation and happy exercise...
...Editor's Note--This is the first of a series of letters discovered by a graduate student in the stacks of Widener Library, thus proving that occasionally the stack privilege is worthy its name. The letters are unretouched and have been censored by three Methodists, a Baptist, and a Holy Roller.) April...