Word: baptiste
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Washington Evelyn Walker Robert, beauteous wife of the recently resigned Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Lawrence Wood ("Chip") Robert Jr., gave a large birthday party for her favorite horse, St. John the Baptist. St. John appeared at the party in a wreath of white carnations, eyed suspiciously a guest horse named Easter Sunday, several beribboned dogs...
...Father Lord is also the nation's No. 1 Catholic pamphleteer, author of 5? tracts on subjects like Shall I Be a Nun?, My Friend the Pastor, Fashionable Sin, Christ Lives On, which have sold 3,500,000 copies. The St. John the Baptist of the Legion of Decency movement, Father Lord drew up the morality code which Cinema Tsar Will H. Hays's office adopted in 1930 and which is supposed to ban from Hollywood films such subjects as sexual perversion, nudity, irreverent treatment of the clergy, miscegenation...
...Fresno, Calif., registrations at the Fresno Evening High School boomed when Charles Woessner, accounting machine salesman and onetime Baptist pastor, announced two courses in "How To Fall in Love and Stay...
Temple began as a theological class in the study of the Rev. Russell Herman Conwell. Later it was a workers' night school in the basement of Dr. Conwell's Grace Baptist Church. Finally it began expanding all over Philadelphia. Fiercely democratic, it kept its fees low, welcomed students regardless of their preparation or occupation. Among the creations of Founder Conwell, Temple never attained the fame of the inspirational lecture "Acres of Diamonds" which Dr. Conwell delivered more than 6,000 times before his death...
Last week, as he made ready to re-enter the pulpit, "Dan" Poling was 51, just beginning to grey. Since he is no Baptist, the congregation of Grace Temple expected him to make less use of their 60-foot marble immersion tank where white carnations are kept floating during baptismal services. Dr. Poling will probably omit flowers, allow a microphone to overshadow the tank...