Word: deaconness
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...some handsome Technicolored Arizona landscapes and fetches up nowhere in particular. Originally, Paramount planned a film about the Calgary Stampede. What emerges is a complicated musical involving a show girl (Dorothy Lamour) whose father owns a dud silver mine, a counterfeiter (Victor Moore) who looks like a snide old deacon, and a young fellow (Dick Powell) who can't decide just how honest is honest enough. Toothy Cass Daley, the pauper's Beatrice Lillie, may tickle groundlings. For others there is a very shrewd little slapfooted dance performed by Cy Landry as an Indian...
...wife converted him to the Baptist Church. In the records of the Manhattan Central Baptist Church there is a notation for 1914: "Deacon Charles Wilson has done excellent service in managing the lantern for the lectures Sunday evenings. Our facilities are not of the best and it has taken much knowledge and patience, but the work has been well done." Deacon Charles Wilson also started a Sunday School for Chinese children. Years later, in Bridgeport, Conn., he conducted a Baptist Young Men's Forum. Even now, in Washington, WPB Vice Chairman Charles Wilson often stops in at church...
...Deacons lost their only contest of the season in this twin bill when Mike DeLeo pitched the Commuters to a 12 to 4 win. Kirkland came through in the second game, necessary to the championship, behind the twirling and hitting of Mort Mendelsohn, 4 to 1. Mike DeLeo tried to pitch the second tussle for Dudley but the Deacon swatters, sparked by Manny Holman's homer, piled up an undestroyed lead...
...Adams and Deacon hardballers were forced into a 3 to 3 deadlock yesterday by rain. Frank MacNutt pitched the Gold Coasters seven innings, while George and Dick Albion traded the shagging and mound positions...
George Dillon, Tom Wood, and Dick Gorlin piled up three points for the Gold Coast netters win over Lowell yesterday. Dunster defaulted to the Deacon racquetmen Monday...