Word: baptists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York. But the Metropolitan Opera Company would not permit Jeritza or any other soprano to behave like Salome on its respectable stage, to shed seven veils one after the other in the notorious dance before King Herod or to grovel before a horrid head of St. John the Baptist. Once, 25 years ago, it attempted to give Salome and Dr. William Stephen Rainsford, the late Mr. Morgan's spiritual adviser,? was so upset that a directors' meeting was called, the opera withdrawn from the repertoire because it was "objectionable and detrimental to the best interests of the Metropolitan...
Married. John Davison Rockefeller III, 26, Princeton graduate, by occupation "associated with father''; and Blanchette Ferry Hooker, 23. Vassar graduate, youngest daughter of Elon Huntington Hooker, financier, engineer, electrochemist; in Manhattan. In the Rockefeller-built Riverside Baptist Church, the world's No. 1 nonroyal heir, tall and saturnine, took a Rockefeller-worthy bride, tall, handsome, healthy. Aloft, the Laura Spelman Rockefeller (grandmother) carillon pealed its world's biggest 72 bells. Outside was a mob with news sense, pleased because the bride smiled at large as she walked into the church. Inside were 2,500 Rockefeller & Hooker friends, socialites, bankers...
...great losses and 'hard times' which have come upon the Southern Baptists by reason of the present prolonged depression have not stopped them from wasting their substance in riotous living. The Southern Baptists waste sufficient money, along five or six lines of extravagant living every year, to finance the whole program of Southern Baptist work...
...reports the Southern Baptist Handbook for 1932, published last week. Listed as money misspent: $46,200,000 a year on tobacco; $26,000,000 on cinema; $21,580,000 on automobile outings; $35,000,000 on soft drinks and chewing gum; more than $43,000,000 on cosmetics. The Southern Baptist Church needs $40,000,000. "Look about you. . . . quit YOUR WHINING!" cries the Handbook...
...Manhattan theology. He went over to the Episcopal Church which he called, in the words of Phillips Brooks, "the roomiest church in Christendom." Dr. Newton needed room. Burly, round-faced, sharp-eyed, a fluent preacher, he had brought with him poetic mysticism without losing any of his old-time Baptist zeal. An authority on Abraham Lincoln, he read 2,000 works before writing Lincoln and Herndon. For McCall's Magazine he now edits a column of sermons-of-the-month...