Word: chatterbox
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...chatterbox rural parish discovers the affair and turns against him as a defender of evil. He loses his church and is about to hang himself when a small child and an ancient farmer remind him that love and courage are enduring loyalties in life...
John Roach Straton, so-called "divine chatterbox": "In a statement issued from my Calvary Baptist Church, Manhattan, I pointed out that Harvard students did not jeer at me on the occasion of a recent speech by me in Cambridge, as was alleged. Said I: 'It is true that some of the students disagreed with me and, indeed questioned me sharply. But, they did so with courtesy, in good spirit, and in general I was treated with the utmost respect. ... At the conclusion of the meeting there was great applause, but I heard no jeering...