Word: flock
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Baltimore, Washington, Bridgeport. Most of his followers, "of high as well as of low intellectual capacity," believe him to be God or a "resurrected Christ" who has come to dwell on earth. Divine denies that he teaches he is God, but the Newark committee finds that he suffers his flock to "pay him divine honors" in violation of the New Jersey statute. "Father" Divine owns several automobiles and an airplane. In New York alone his "Kingdom" costs $30.000 a year to operate. Most of this sum is spent on enormous free banquets for his Harlem followers who gorge themselves...
...door of the elevator which runs to the stage floor by a fluttering flock of autograph hunting women, two B. U. students, working their way into a fraternity by getting autographed sheets of music, and the CRIMSON reporter, Rogers spent a busy five minutes scribbling his name on all sorts of paper and saying "Thank you," and smiling sweetly on the varied specimens of womanhood which clamored and pushed before him. The next moment his manager came to his rescue and whisked him upstairs to his dressing room. The manager explained to the reporter that Buddy had to make...
...admiring flock dwindled, and while the B. U. fraternity candidates waited, the reporter was summoned to the dressing room. There, while selecting his necktie, and between dashes to the shower-room, with the air of a much interviewed man he replied to the reporter's questions. "Mary Brian" said he, "is the actress with whom I have gotten the most enjoyment from acting." Buddy avowed a preference for the piano above all other instruments which he plays. When asked what he thought of the Harvard indifference, he replied that his audiences in Boston had been very kind...
...scheme failed to tempt the more vigilant pastors of Christ's flock. Said the Christian Century last week...
...brought all Warsaw business to a stop, just before Chancellor Hitler received in Berlin the new Polish "Goodwill Minister," suave M. Jozef Lipski. WHAM! Enemy planes scored direct hits on Warsaw's main railway station with confetti bombs as station employes touched off cannon crackers and released a flock of pigeons. Clang! Clang! Fire engines dashed through Warsaw to pretend to put out fires which blazed on the roofs struck by confetti bombs. The crackling, roaring flames were real but they belched from flame pots always under control...