Word: evangelists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hipping back & forth, letting her shoulder straps fall, she does a monstrously coy "stripteaser routine." She hits Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson with a rowdy song: "I'm Salvation Sadie from Avenue A, Vending salvation and making it pay," rolling her eyes with a huge suggestiveness that is wholly antiseptic...
That was in Manhattan. It was the spring the U. S. went to War. Night after night for ten weeks Rev. William Ashley ("Billy") Sunday, No. 1 evangelist of his day, packed the 20,000-seat tabernacle John D. Rockefeller Jr. and others had provided for him. His loud acrobatics moved 100,000 sinners to "hit the trail...
...called The Story of a Country Town. When publishers refused his book, Editor Howe printed it himself, a page at a time. Mark Twain compared it to the works of Russian realists of whom Ed Howe had never heard. A bleak, bitter biography of himself and his itinerant evangelist father, The Story of a Country Town was a precedent for the school of U. S. fiction whose ablest current practitioner is Sinclair Lewis. More than 100.000 copies have been sold; a first edition is worth...
...remain a wife in name only; Pearl's normal husband Lov who bought her for $7, loves her vainly, beats her moderately; Jeeter and Ada's remaining son Dude whose pastime is bouncing a ball, whose dream is an automobile horn; a middle-aged prostitute turned evangelist who makes Dude her lawful pastime by buying him an automobile horn with automobile attached...
...dusty yard crawls with lechery. Lov lusts for his runaway Pearl. Ellie May for Lov, the lady evangelist for young Dude, Jeeter for the evangelist. An external plot arrives in the person of a bank agent come to put Jeeter off the land. For the $100 annual rent required, Jeeter sends Son Dude off in his new car in an unsuccessful attempt to borrow the money from another son. The car runs over Mother Ada. As she dies, Jeeter nabs Pearl with a view to selling her back to her husband for the rent money. Slyly claiming a mother...