Word: breaking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Church. Bishop White, who has thousands of disciples ("Holy Jumpers") in the British Isles, clearly regarded Mrs. McPherson as a poacher upon her preserves or worse. Squired by two male Deacons, the Reverend Bishop sat herself down in a box at Albert Hall, with an air of purposing to break up the revival. The dread potency of Bishop White, when aroused against another female, may be judged from her scathing criticisms of the Church of Mary Baker Eddy: "The teachings of the so-called Christian Science Church . . . have drawn multitudes from the orthodox faith, and blasted their hopes of heaven...
...final whistle blows, the crowds rise and break into waves to flow out of the stadium. The morning-paper reporters leave, and only the evening-paper men are left. There is still the "lead" of the play-by-play story to be written. Darkness falls rapidly, and lanterns make their appearance along the counter, by whose light the typewrites click, and the pencils push faster and faster, sending to frantic sporting editors trying to catch the third edition the information that...
...clock--Leave from Park Street Under on two special four-car subway trains for Stadium station. March along Memorial Drive, up Plympton Street to Harvard Yard, Break ranks...
Sticks and stones can break no political bones. Words are what help or hurt. And more potent than words are pictures...
...candidate for Vice president. I have been trying to induce Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt to bolt the Republican party and join our standard, and I also have my eye on Henry Ford and Mayor Gillis of New buryport, although I doubt if the latter will be able to break his engagements in time for his inauguration if he should be elected...