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Word: ferryman (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1934-1934
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...market square are established. Many blacks are attracted by Baptist Minister Jones's sensational revivals. More turn to the Catholic mission where Father Domenique cultivates his gentle philosophy and his rose garden. Sister Marte, annoyed with Sister Therese, runs away, makes good her escape by sending dour old Ferryman Lardi, asleep on his raft, to death in the rapids below, then takes refuge with the Joneses until Sister Mary Josephine fetches her back. Old Googli, the cannibal, fashions a pottery jar from the skull of lascivious Brother Francois who had made an insane attack on the sacred virgin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Black & White | 9/10/1934 | See Source »

...Florists Wadley & Smythe $5,000. At South Ferry on the Battery the funeral procession rolled aboard two chartered ferryboats, to bear Mrs. Vanderbilt in her bronze casket across the same body of water on which "Commodore" Cornelius Vander Bilt, her illiterate grandfather-in-law, made his start as a ferryman and founded the family fortune...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Nothing to Nothing | 5/7/1934 | See Source »

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