Word: flocks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...drunkard," he would yell. "I used to curse and tell lies and all those things. But I've been saved! ... If you come, you can find God around this old bush arbor ... If you go home lost tonight, it's not my fault." His flock would begin to groan and shout, to shake and roll in the sawdust. Then a string quartet would take over, and the hymn-singing would send everyone into still more shouts and gyrations...
...them, and requires a long focal distance to be seen." Henry James called him "the sanest and most far-reaching intellect." Last week the Church of the New Jerusalem met in Manhattan for its 131st General Convention. On hand were 250 delegates, including the Rev. Yonezo Doi, whose flock in Japan and Korea numbers 3,400 Swedenborgians. Meeting in their trim, light-filled church off Park Avenue on 35th Street and in their church in Brooklyn Heights, the prosperous-looking, efficient men and women of New Jerusalem heard reports of mild but encouraging growth in the U.S. and the rest...
Giuseppe Sarto became Bishop of Mantua, then Cardinal Patriarch of Venice. He was still poor, still giving away his few belongings and launching quixotic business ventures to help his flock. To one visitor he complained that a gold watch he had been given was engraved with the patri archal arms and therefore could not be pawned. When Pope Leo XIII died in 1903 and Cardinal Sarto had to go to Rome for the conclave, he did not have enough money for the railroad fare and the Catholic bank in Venice refused to lend it to him. He got his loan...
Since her first Metro picture (Mogam-bo), Grace has been busier than a flock of starlets at a cocktail party. Warner Bros, borrowed her for Dial M, and Paramount for three more films, which have not yet been released. All are surefire hits, too: Country Girl (with William Holden and Bing Crosby), Rear Window (with James Stewart), Bridges at Toko-Ri (with Holden). She is now working on Green Fire (with Stewart Granger) for MGM; this summer she returns to Paramount for Catch a Thief (with Cary Grant), follows that with The Cobweb...
...recent years, he faced the increasingly bitter taunts of the liberal arts professors, who have long called 120th Street "the widest street in the world." But each year, some 13,000 teachers and administrators flock to that street. They take courses in everything, from "ideological conflicts and education in Asia" to "family meals" (Cookery 203) and organic chemistry. Though the college does go in for such miscellany as tap dancing ("Well," says Russell, "what would you do if you were a teacher in a small country school on a rainy day?") and a two-week course for janitors, this...