Word: dan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gathered in Convention Hall for an early "Quiet Hour" of Scriptural reading. Eager and uncritical, they absorbed thin-spread ideas from speakers on marriage, peace, evangelism, social justice, politics. They yielded to the energetic, well-scrubbed personality of Christian Endeavor's world president, Dr. Daniel Alfred ("Dan") Poling. They marched in a great parade to show how they felt about peace. And they sang lustily, often under the leadership of unctuous, trombone-playing Homer Alvan Rodeheaver. Beforehand, C. E.'s Vice President William Hiram Foulkes had written in The Presbyterian: "These Endeavorers are a colorful, cheerful crowd. They...
Bishop died a respectable citizen in the early 1900's, surviving such friends as Foster, Dan Emmett (Dixie). Nelson Kneass (Ben Bolt). The Battle Hymn of the Republic has always been regarded as Julia Ward Howe's song, written to the tune of John Brown's Body whose authorship seemed to be unknown. At MacIntyre's request Thomas Brigham Bishop wrote out the tune's true history. Said he: "It was really done as a joke upon my sanctimonious brother...
Last week at Houston, playing in the final of the Texas Golf Association's women's championship. Golfer Didrikson came to the 34th hole all even with her opponent, Mrs. Dan Chandler, champion of Mexico. Mrs. Chandler got a birdie four. Babe Didrikson passed the green with her second shot, chipped her next into the cup for an eagle three. Then she won the 35th hole with a birdie four for match & title...
...Pronounced as though sneezing, "Dan-tzikhh!" *Not a nonsense word pattern, this sentence becomes clear when it is recalled that in many German minds today "Honor" is a synonym for either "German aggrandizement'' or "honor," whichever suits the context...
...strikingly fresh story, but it is told with a skillful directness which makes "Broadway Bill" an exciting, absorbing film. Dan Rogers (Warner Baxter) in the course of his wanderings from race track to race track, lands in the thriving municipality of Higginsville, where he falls in love with and marries the eldest daughter of the town's captain of all industries, J. L. Higgins. The attractions of life in Higginsville as the manager of the Higgins Box Factory are not sufficient to divert Rogers from his all-consuming passion for fine horses and when he gets possession of Broadway Bill...