Word: churchgoer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...churchgoer who put 10? into the collection plate each and every Sunday of last year may warm his piety at the comforting thought that he was twice as generous as the average churchgoer. Authority for the fact that 5? is the average contribution, is the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America, which published figures last week. The most generous State: New Jersey, 12.2? per churchgoer per Sunday. Virginia, the Carolinas, Washington and eleven other States averaged less than...
...moral and religious welfare of the city." Principally this service has consisted of bringing noted divines of all faiths to speak to audiences made up of all faiths. It is as non-sectarian as a subway train. The club's season begins in October, ends in May. The infrequent churchgoer, the stranded salesman, the sedulously religious, the homebody, the student, the tycoon, the clerk, these people and their like attend...
...Governor (TIME, March 7). Talk, however, still comes out of Oklahoma concerning the Governor's matronly secretary with whom he is said to plumb spiritualism, occultism, Rosicrusianism. The latest report is that she calls the Democratic State Chairman her errand boy. Meanwhile her husband, Dr. Hammonds, churchgoer from Okmulgee, enjoys pay as State Commissioner of Health...
Pittsburgh's "safety director," one James M. Clark, churchgoer, announced that the concerts would not be permitted. Music-lovers murmured. Safetyman Clark, officeholder, melted and said he would get an opinion from the city solicitor. But last week the orchestra, ''in preference to entering a religious controversy," canceled its own plans, explaining 1) tha Sunday had been chosen for the concerts because most of the civic musicians were employed by theatres on week days; 2) that the prevalence of organ recitals, park band concerts and radio jazz on Sundays in Pittsburgh, against which there had been...
...were to choose the two most sensational bits of prose published in 1926, one might well select the short story "Hatrack" (reviewed in TIME, April 19), and the novel Revelry (TIME, Nov. 29). "Hatrack," the tale of "Fanny Fewclothes," rebuffed churchgoer and sought-after prostitute of Farmington,* Mo., enabled Editor H. L. Mencken to guffaw at the New England Watch and Ward Society, to boost the circulation of the American Mercury, to have the "Hatrack" issue barred from the U. S. mails. Revelry, a flashy novel of the scandals of the Harding Administration, is bringing fortune if not fame...