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...neither college nor seminary training; only 14% had both. In two nations Baptist mission aries had had their troubles: 1) in Italy where the state had all but expropriated 15 acres of Baptist land; 2) in Rumania where the Government had detained one missionary 48 hours in a "vile dungeon." To Secretary of State Hull in Washington went Baptist protests against both "injustices." The Southern Baptist Convention passed a broad social service report but with stubborn conservatism tabled a recommendation to "investigate moral and social conditions as they affect Southern Baptist life." Said a "messenger" (delegate...
...Venezuelan public filed in politely, took one look, promptly went berserk. Men, women and children, whose kinsmen and ancestors had died in Rotunda, smashed everything smashable, lugged away everything movable, ripped locks out of dungeon doors, wrenched bars from window-slits. Exhausted by an orgy of rage against stone & steel, they filed out into the bright noon of Caracas...
...advertisement of a book about "escaped nuns": "Convent horror . . . story of Barbara Ubrick, who for 21 years was locked in a stone dungeon 8 ft. long and 6 ft. wide because she refused to surrender her virtue to a Romish priest...
...last week, taken out of storage for the first time in six years because Soprano Kirsten Flagstad was on hand to sing the difficult role of Leonore. For his libretto the bachelor Beethoven chose one that extolled marital love and devotion. To be near her husband imprisoned in a dungeon Leonore dresses as a boy, takes a job as the jailer's assistant. Dramatic scene comes when she helps dig her husband's grave, then outwits the tyrant who had plotted his murder. Other parts of the opera move along leisurely, seem dated and old-fashioned compared with...
...Mudd found himself suspected of being party to the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. He was court martialed, with seven other suspects, sentenced to life imprisonment in Fort Jefferson, on the dry Tortugas, off the southern tip of Florida. He tried to escape, failed, was put in a solitary dungeon. When yellow fever killed the prison's doctor and scores of its 1,000 convicts, Dr. Mudd volunteered his services, worked heroically to stem the epidemic. In the spring of 1869 he was pardoned by President Andrew Jackson...