Word: cult
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...scribbled a note of resignation from college, departed for a farm near Amherst, 90 miles away in the New Hampshire hills. Dartmouth's Dean Lloyd Kellock Neidlinger, who knew where Gates had gone, went after him. On the farm was a branch of a famed old New England cult-the Holy Ghost and Us Society (or Legion...
Amherst villagers declared last week that Sandford, now a bearded prophet of 76, was to be seen of moonlit nights near the cult's farm. Neither Dean Neidlinger, however, nor a sheriff, nor newshawks who visited the farm saw him. Heavenly Gates declared: "I have found the peace I have been looking for." Dean Neidlinger, satisfied there was "no monkey business" about Gates's trip to the farm, departed announcing that Gates was still free to return to Dartmouth. At length, after four days of wrestling with what by week's end had become the most publicized...
AMIIHERST, N. H., November 3 (UP)--A state police guard was placed around the turkey farm headquarters of the Holy Ghost and Us Society tonight after conflicting reports that Harrington (Heavenly) Gates had field the cult...
...Joseph Holland, manager of the cult, told newsmen that the Dartmouth College football star has left, but shortly after State police superindent Charles Colbath said that Gates was at the farm...
...1910s, when shapely, grey-eyed Geraldine Farrar was the most shimmering star of Manhattan's Metropolitan, operatic prima donnas were the world's most galumptious glamor girls. In 1922, before her cult had time to die, 40-year-old Soprano Farrar retired from the operatic stage to live a secluded life on a Connecticut farm. Last week she published her autobiography,* a curiously constructed narrative half of which is written in the third person as though seen through the eyes of Soprano Farrar's deceased mother...