Word: baptists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Baptist's Death...
...Drowned Baptist" you made statements...
...undersigned, deacons and trustees of the First Baptist Church at Easton, Md. enclose a true statement of the tragedy using your own form and phrasing, as far as it adheres to the truth, and urging that it be given exactly the same prominence in your magazine as the one referred to and which we consider irreverent to the sacred rite of baptism...
...prominent parishioners absent. That same morning there was a dress rehearsal of Richard Strauss's Salome at the Metropolitan Opera House. To it had gone many a rich and respectable churchgoer to see how Olive Fremstad would exhibit her fanatical lust for the body of St. John the Baptist. The churchgoers were offended enough by the screaming dissonances and the way Fremstad brought the horrid head up to the footlights, caressed the matted black hair, kissed the cold lips. But no one was so outraged as Dr. William Stephen Rainsford when he went to breakfast on Monday with...
King Herod's birthday starts all the trouble in the Strauss version of Oscar Wilde's play.' It is at his birthday banquet that Salome suddenly revolts against his slimy glances, goes on to the terrace where John the Baptist (in the Strauss text Jokanaan) is chanting his denunciations from a cistern prison. To see the saint Salome beguiles a young Syrian officer to let him out. John talks about Christ. Salome does not even notice when the Syrian stabs himself. But jittery old Herod steps in the Syrian's blood and Salome must dance...