Word: footpad
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Testament into journalese. There the peppery, dogmatic rector of old Christ Church, 77-year-old Rev. Louis Cope Washburn, preached his retiring sermon last January with a bandage about his head, result of an encounter in which he bested a footpad with his umbrella. Episcopal Rev. Dr. David McConnell Steele believes that Lent is a bore (TIME, March 30, 1936), Rev. "Jack" Hart this summer founded the Episcopal Anti-Mothball Society (TIME, July 12), "Rev." Mary Hubbert Ellis scuttles about looking for nude statues to cover up, and Rev. Dr. George Chalmers Richmond broods in a Philadelphia suburb over...
...convenient to the eye are its single-column pages, dialog in quotation marks, with subtitles and paragraph headings; verse numbers are set in the margins. Its advertised modernity caused captious critics to hunt up expressions which are not current in the U. S. A Chicago reader, for example, found "footpad" (see below) and triumphed briefly until it was discovered that the Chicago Tribune currently uses the word...
...thou arise from your sleep? out of thy sleep? "A little sleep, a Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, little slumber, a little A little folding of folding of the hands to hands to rest" -sleep: So will poverty come So shall thy poverty upon you like a footpad, come as one that trav-And want like an armed ellcth, and thy want as man. an armed man. A lush garden of Biblical interpretations, notes, pronouncing guides, charts, digests, maps and concordances is available in a new Analytical Indexed Bible, edited by Dr. James R. Kaye, able Bible scholar...
Having personally directed the sleuthing, Commissioner Mulrooney announced that Miss Bischoffs murderer was one Harry Stein, 32-year-old footpad. He was found to have had in his possession a mink coat, from which the lining and identifying tags had been torn, and an unmounted diamond. (Miss Bischoffs mink coat and diamond ring were missing when her corpse was found.) Four others were arrested as his accomplices...
...Accused in 1922 (under the name of "Tony Capone, alias Al Brown") of the murder of Joe Howard, petty footpad and hijacker. Never brought to trial...