Word: doss
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Dope fiends are commonly pictured lying stupefied in Chinese doss houses. Few persons know that in 1924 one out of every thousand U. S. citizens was addicted to narcotics, that in 14 years Federal prohibition of narcotics has reduced the figure by an estimated...
Noel's Jesus. Father Conrad Noel, 68, is the Church of England's most famed and deepest-red radical. Grandson of the Earl of Gainsborough, he went to public schools, to Cambridge, to Chichester Theological College, and, he says, "completed my education in the doss-houses of South London." For 27 years Father Noel, an Anglo-Catholic, has been vicar of Thaxted, a small parish near Cambridge. Of his early days as priest he says: "At Thaxted I preached Socialism, and soon introduced a full Catholic Worship according to the old English rite. Some of my parishioners became...
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Cried Rev. Doss Kilgore, assistant pastor of a nearby Full Salvationist Mission, to a writhing, wailing group: "We want to snuggle up to the Lord tonight and look right into Heaven. He needs a band of people to do his will." When Shirley's rigid arms slowly rose up, the shirt-sleeved evangelist exclaimed: "It is a manifestation of God's power...
...seemed to be standing on a cloud, with the earth far below me, and I had a glimpse of Heaven. There seemed to be a veil. I saw God walking toward me on a white path. There was a veil between us. I saw little Jimmie Kilgore [son of Doss who died six years ago]. He was dressed in white and had white hair. He seemed to be picking flowers on a mountain pathway...