Word: deacon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...January Joe Sleet wrote to Nellie Wallace: "Dear I am so proud and happy to know that you are a Baptist too. What do you know, I am one of the youngest deacons in our Church? I don't think there is any harm for a deacon to learn to love some one and I do hope you will allow that some one to be you." Nellie Wallace replied that there was a spark of love aglow in her heart...
...first act discovers Elmer Gantry, newly ordained and already eloquent in the jargon of eternal love and mortal lust, laying siege to little Lulu Bains, daughter of a deacon. Having seduced her, he is threatened with a wedding. But Elmer Gantry prays to God: "Show me some way out of this marriage, for Christ's sake, Amen." Sneering at his feeble victim, he escapes the nuptials by stamping out of the ministry to become a salesman of plows...
...funeral. A Willis memorial fund was begun. Messages of condolence continued pouring in on Mrs. Willis, especially long ones from her dead husband's colleagues in the Senate. No message moved her more than a Senate message which came, not from a Senator, but from Richard L. ("Deacon") Riedel, a religiously-inclined boy commonly recognized in the Senate wing of the Capitol as Senator Willis' favorite Senate page...
...farmers, by mail, a machine guaranteed to kill each & every insect or worm. The machine consisted of two blocks of wood-"you put the bug you wanted to kill on one block and squashed him with the other." Rental $2. Tony disappeared when the Postoffice got inquisitive, and left Deacon Miscombe holding the bag. In War, Aviator Tony annoyed a German sausage balloon and shot down a Fokker plane with the words: "Jeeze, what'd you want to pick...
...what "evolution" meant, the parent said: "I do not know and I do not want to know but I do know that I do not want my children to know anything about it, either." The result of this to-do was a request that Mr. Tate, anti-evolutionist and Deacon of the Baptist Church, was asked to resign as Principal of the Farragut Grammar School...