Word: christs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Later Mr. Thweatt declared: "At the close of the talk, Capone's face seemed to radiate, and when I asked those prisoners to stand who felt the need and will to accept the Lord Jesus Christ as their personal Saviour, he was the first to rise." That this "conversion" had taken place, no one doubted. Said Prison Warden E. J. Lloyd: "Sure, the ministers do that all the time. And there are always ten or fifteen men who raise their hands or rise. I don't know whether they really mean it or not." What Warden Lloyd...
Said Mr. Thweatt, slightly bitter: "If the government is going to spend so much money for a correctional institution and if the religion of the Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ, is a correctional religion, then why should the news of an inmate's accepting the religion be barred from the press and public knowledge...
...CHRIST IN CONCRETE - Pietro di Donato-Bobbs-Merrill...
...Christ in Concrete, autobiographical but imaginative, is a passionate, humorous, pathetic story of peasant Italians in the U. S., at work, in tenements, in animal anguish and animal high spirits. Author di Donato's Italians speak a translated Italian, lyrical, bawdy, tender, crude...
With so much to recommend it, Christ in Concrete has one unfortunate fault-its occasional passages of impressionistic, Joycean rhetoric. But these passages are not structural. Without them, the book would be as solid as one of Author di Donato's brick walls...