Word: deacons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Blind enthusiasts for the past can only remind us of that group of grey-bearded New Englanders who, we are told, had gathered about the stove in the little post office at the crossroads, and were bemoaning the regrettable changes and universal degeneration round about them. 'Even Deacon Jones,' added the postmaster, 'isn't the man he used to be.' The approving squire summed it all up when he concluded sadly, 'No, and he never was.' So it is with the college undergraduate. It is true that in many respects...
...Deacon," the rollicking black Army mule will cavort in the Stadium this afternoon in a special one act drama...
...Aged 29, deacon, Protestant Episcopal Church...
...Macon, Ga., Phil Towns, 104, was arrested for Prohibition-law violation. Explained he: "I'm a deacon of the church, and just use it to keep in condition-as I have for 90 years...
...wenches. He satisfied his social needs in the Erie Street Baptist Church. There he would memorize hymns and Scripture passages, play clerk to the trustees, mingle with solid people, spend little. A sanctimonious social life satisfied him, but high school did not. Though nattered by his academic nickname, "The Deacon," he was lured early by Business. Leaving school two months after his sixteenth birthday in 1855, he soon became office-boy in a warehouse on a day since reverenced by the Rockefeller clan. Never the mythical, poverty-stricken Rockefeller boy, he became at 17 a trustee of the Erie Street...