Word: convert
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Said Brother-in-law Convert, husband of Captain Loewenstein's late sister: "I want this affair cleared up. If my brother-in-law was drugged we must know about it, if possible. Suicide is out of the question. On the day before his death Captain Loewenstein telephoned one of his closest friends that he was on his way to see his son ride in the horse show at Geneva. He was a man too happy to commit suicide." Autopsy findings. ". . . many multiple fracture wounds, proving that the fall was from a great height ... no trace of drugs or poisons...
...bibacious mother who starved the boy for affection, he was a child of curious, conflicting emotion. Gleefully he chopped up frogs and roasted mice alive; demurely he followed his father to church, and gradually religion won out-he was hypnotized, obsessed. Evenings, he pored over the Bible, sweated to convert his friend the agnostic. And evenings, there was Eirwen, sensuous, beautiful, alluring. Reuben's quick passions were aroused and tormented, but another self damned them as unholy. Meanwhile his gift of oratory won him the leadership of a sect of fanatics who confessed, screamed, rolled in mystic...
Inside of 24 hours, the cash offer was oversubscribed by $475,000,000. Provident owners of Third Liberties hastened to convert their holdings before July...
...Straton asked Atheist Smith to stop mailing him such things. When Mr. Smith failed to do so, Dr. Straton haled him into court. Once before the judges, Atheist Smith sought to make it appear that he had been trying to interest Preacher Straton in atheism, because he "wanted to convert the leader of the opposition." The nude pictures were intended to appeal to "his aesthetic side if he had any." Atheist Smith pointed out that it would be quite natural for a clergyman to send an atheist Christian propaganda. After so doing, Atheist Smith was found guilty of sending letters...
When Wilbur Glenn Voliva enthusiastically set out to prove to the world that it was flat and set upon four poles, as the Bible states, he intended to convert the thousands to his enlightened cause, not to have his chosen people converted to the cause of the thousands. Confidently he sailed to Europe with his mind stuffed full of convincing diatribes, never once considering the danger to his own well pastured sheep, safe, as he thought, in Zion City and in the confident belief in the flatness of this unbelieving world...