Word: behest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rawboned mountaineer named Albert Teester let himself be bitten by a rattlesnake, became gravely ill, recovered (TIME, Aug. 20, 1934). Soon in Birmingham one female and three male Holy Rollers safely handled a rattler from which, it later was revealed, the fangs had been drawn at the behest of their Rev. Dewey L. Dotson. Famed in the rural districts of Georgia, the Carolinas and Virginia is George Hensley, a cracker parson who has been publicly snakebitten 200 times, is apparently immune to serpent venom...
...solution of economic troubles lies in "the revolution of which Jesus Christ is the leader ... so Red . . . that it has never been tried yet." The play was given five performances in St. Louis last fortnight, cleared $1,300. Its 85 actors took busses to Gillespie last week at the behest of a miners' priest named Rev. John Goff, who had been preaching anti-Communist sermons in restive Macoupin County, Ill., had been bombed out of bed for his pains. Father Goff thought that Storm-Tossed showed the Church had something better to offer than Communism...
...great Chancellor of the Exchequer (1924 & 1929-31). As a campaign orator, the noble Viscount has no peer in scathing invective and corrosive scorn. He quit the Labor Party four years ago to campaign for his old friend James Ramsay MacDonald so that the National Government formed at the behest of King George (TIME, Aug. 31, 1931) could triumph at the polls. Last week Viscount Snowden proved that his heart in Britain's next general election is with Labor...
...quite orthodox. Since the private activities of U. S. Senators are not limited by law, the committee when it was formed about a year ago, made a shrewd bid for Senatorial patriotism and prestige. Thus it was that Senators Nye & Wheeler popped up in Havana last week at the behest of unhappy holders of $40,000,000 of Public Works bonds issued in the U. S. in the twilight of the Machado dictatorship. After Machado fled, the Grau San Martin Government repudiated the loan as illegally contracted, and the Cuban Supreme Court is now pondering charges that the Machado Administration...
Meanwhile throughout the U. S., at the behest of the Committee for Ethiopia which claimed to represent 5,000 ministers, 4,000,000 communicants in a dozen or more faiths, many a Sunday worshipper also prayed for Ethiopia's peace and put money in the collection box for the new Ethiopian Red Cross. Last week the Federal Council of Churches came out officially against an Italo-Ethiopian War, as did a number of bishops and clergy of all sects in a petition signed by the Washington Clergy Committee against War and Political Corruption. In many a Christian heart there...