Word: basement
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...United States," he cried, "the only place where you cannot expect to find booze is in a church basement...
...Citizens may still expect to find sacramental wines in the basement of most Roman Catholic and Episcopal churches, Jewish synagogs. † Native wines and 75% Beer
Actor Smith. "As late as 1916, when I was sheriff of New York, the parish needed funds, so we produced Boucicault's The Shaughraun in the basement of the church. I played Corry Kinchela. the villain. . . . The hero was played by James J. Walker, now Mayor of the City of New York. ... I have often said that my prominence in them [amateur theatricals] played no small part in bringing me to the attention of the people of my neighborhood, which, unquestionably, in time to come, had something to do with my elections...
Near Scandia, Kan., a church bulletin announced: "The women of this church have cast off clothing of all kinds. Look them over in the church basement any time this week...
...time Mrs. Nation told her troubles to God, dragging herself around the room on her knees. At times she felt herself suspended over a precipice by a heavenly hand; at other times she saw two snakes. She heard wings beating, saw angels and devils, met Jesus in the basement. A proud reminiscence: "I was often considered crazy on the subject of religion." At length she heard a voice exclaim from the heavens: "Take something in your hands and throw it at those places and smash them...