Word: delights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With childish delight the Vagabond will skip into the Keith Memorial Theatre to see and hear "A Day in the Life of the Dionne Quintuplets" once every day this week...
Last week Clem Sohn was in Vincennes, France, to do his specialty for 100,000 spectators at an air circus. While the crowd howled with delight, Sohn stepped from his Farman at 10,000 ft., pirouetted toward the ground at 2,000 ft. per minute...
...richest properties in Africa. Dr. Schacht's scheme was that Germany should buy $84,250,000 worth of Congo copper, tin and oil, pay for it within a specified time with thermometers, automobiles, safety razors, cameras, et al. One potent group in Belgium hailed this scheme with delight, for as special inducement Dr. Schacht was willing to have all the Congo imports carried in Belgian freighters. Catch to all this is that Belgian manufacturers are opposed to seeing their country flooded with German manufactured goods. Premier van Zeeland listened earnestly, promised nothing...
...playing it for all it was worth in his Hearstpaper. The U. S. Attorney in Los Angeles last week issued a warrant for the arrest of John Wuest Hunt, 33, charging him with violating the Mann Act with a Denver 17-year-old named Delight Jewett. Hunt, a fat, thrice-married young man with plenty of money, became a Divinite in Manhattan two years ago, was last year put under observation in Bellevue Hospital because he sent Postmaster General Farley certain obscene confessions as to the good Father Divine had done him. According to Miss Jewett, a schoolgirlish young lady...
...likeness of females will not even so much as ride in an automobile correspondingly together, as couples. They will not walk correspondingly together nor have any personal, special communication, for such is in violation to My Spiritual Rule and Regulation." (Father Divine is against sexual intercourse.) Last week Delight Jewett was cured of her addiction to Divinism and Hunt, who she said had "petrified" and "hypnotized" her. (Likewise her father said he had intended to kill Hunt, instead shook his hand, feeling "the tremendous power of this man and Father Divine.") But at week...