Word: baptiste
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...City's draft director, had already announced: Curran was a draft delinquent for having left the country without notifying his board. McDermott personally certified the case to the appeals board. The decision: Curran is 1A, has until Oct. 15 to appear before the local board. Said its chairman, Baptist Clergyman Francis K. Shepherd: "We're a draft board and we have certain obligations to discharge. We try to do that honestly and fairly, without considering a man's politics-whether he's a union official or an industry head. . . . We certainly will not be influenced...
Talk about a dry and most people think of a Methodist or a Baptist bluenose. But the Roman Catholic Church also has its bluenoses. In Philadelphia last fortnight 400 of them assembled to attend the 72nd annual convention of the Catholic Total Abstinence Union...
...white-haired, tight-lipped Baptist Goodspeed retired from the University of Chicago faculty in 1936. When he entered the graduate school the late President Harper reportedly advised him: "Now Edgar, don't rush through!" He took the advice literally, spent 38 years of teaching there. Students liked his mixture of ham acting, old-fashioned oratory, prejudices. But many faculty members found him a bit too conscious of his family's long association with the university. His father was secretary of the trustees, did yeoman work in coaxing $600,000 out of the late John D. Rockefeller to start...
Dealing with the rivalry between the godly Baptists, the paganlike Pilgrims, Run Little Chillun climaxes Act I with orgiastic Pilgrim rites by moonlight, Act II with a pandemonious Baptist revival meeting. At both gatherings everybody sings like mad, but the voodoo-haunted Pilgrims' chorus is no match for the well-harmonized hysterics of the yea-sayers...
Burma was not new to the doctor - his grandfather had been a Baptist missionary there, his father was still a missionary in Rangoon, he himself had been born in Burma. But Namkham, its people and dialects were new. And the hospital was filthy. "The floor was stained with blood and pus and medicine, and was so rotten you had to step carefully not to break through. . . . The walls were covered with large red splashes of the saliva of betel-nut chewers. All the window ledges were covered with nasal secreta which the patients blow on their fingers and then carefully...