Word: evangelists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...vital, colorful figures appearing anywhere in public. Fremstad was the daughter of a Swedish masseuse and a Norwegian doctor who gave up a profitable practice in Oslo to go to the U. S. as a Methodist missionary. Settling in St. Peter, some 75 miles from Minneapolis, the self-appointed evangelist toured the Minnesota countryside, holding burning revival meetings. Young Olive went with him. played a portable organ when she was so small that she wore blocks strapped to the bottom of her feet in order to reach the pedals. If conversions were slow in starting, she had to work herself...
...author, associate professor of English at Columbia University where she conducted a popular course in novel and short-story writing; after brief illness; in Manhattan. Among her onetime pupils: Authors Tess Slesinger (The Unpossessed), Myron Brinig (This Man Is My Brother). Died. Rev. William Ashley ("Billy") Sunday, 72, famed evangelist; of heart disease; in Chicago (see p. 46). Died. Walter Lowrie Fisher, 73, Chicago lawyer and traction expert, Secretary of the Interior under President Taft; of coronary thrombosis; in Hubbard Woods, Ill. Died. Henry Fairfield Osborn, 78, paleontologist, longtime (1908-33) president of Manhattan's American Museum of Natural...
...Football crowds should rise as one man and sing hymns of praise to God instead of drinking and carousing," exclaimed Gipsy Smith, hard-hitting English evangelist. "Some strong man is needed to start such a custom here in America today. Someone should rise and say, 'We are all Christians--let us show it by singing 'Nearer My God To Thee' or 'Abide With Me.' Knute Rockne could have done it," declared Mr. Smith...
Next in line for censure was the system of co-education in this country. Co-education is not a success, according to the evangelist, because it has resulted in too many broken hearts and lives. Too often a student in a "coed" school graduates with an ugly memory which haunts him for the rest of his life...
...depression was the result of God's stretching a chain across the toll road of life and claiming possession. People are then forced to stop and think, and they are dissatisfied with what money brings. "They that sow of the flesh shall reap of the flesh," was the evangelist's concluding volley...