Word: ernest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...heart and a twisted foot kept husky Ernest Elmer Baker out of the War, but he got to Germany after it was over. There, according to his mother, "he fell from grace." Back in Menard, Tex., where he worked occasionally at bricklaying, Ernest Elmer Baker made up for his lapse by the zeal with which he took up Pentecostalism in 1933. Pentecostalists roll on the floor and believe that prayer will cure anything, even a sliced artery (TIME, July 23) or a rattlesnake bite (TIME, Aug. 20). Last year Ernest Elmer Baker, 38, got the idea that it would cure...
Lester Adelson, Robert Amory, Henry Aranow, Jr., Herbert Cyrus Barrows, Jr., Carl Livermore Billman, John Alden Bovey, Jr., Beverly Munford Bowie, Robert Vincent Cleary, John Phillips Coolidge, John Cornell, Edward Alfred Crane, Norman Benjamin Davison, Ernest Fasano, Charles Benjamin Feibleman, Comstock Glaser, Victor Bennett Glunts, Boies Chittenden Hart, Jr., Dayton Wood Hull, Julius Kaplan, Wilfred Kaplan, Thomas Joseph Keary...
...newspapers of round, beaming Frank Ernest Gannett rarely make exciting news. Now & then the public hears that Publisher Gannett has bought another small daily like the Saratoga Springs (N. Y.) Saratogian or the Danville (Ill.) Commercial News, as he did last year; or the Utica (N. Y.) Daily Press, as he did last week. But the sum of Frank Gannett's unspectacular doings makes a story that many a publisher would like to be able to tell about himself...
...Ernest Richard Spinney '36, of Hudson--the Boott Prize of $100 for the best composition in concerted vocal music...
From London's gem district went word that the Jonker Diamond had been sold to a Manhattan dealer named Harry Winston. For the uncut, egg-sized stone which shrewd Sir Ernest Oppenheimer of Britain's Diamond Corp. bought for $312,000, Dealer Winston had reputedly paid $730,000. The Jonker, youngest and most perfect of the world's great diamonds, was found one January day last year by the black Kaffir boy of Jacobus J. Jonker, a seedy South African prospector. That night Prospector Jonker tied the stone around his wife's neck, bolted his cabin...