Word: heaven
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...enough. There was a refectory with more than a dozen long tables and a kitchen whose iceboxes burst with pork chops, chickens, choice cuts of beef. There was a large nursery where some pickaninnies slept, incredibly, for upstairs 300 dusky adults were shouting their evangelical fervor. They were in Heaven, a real Heaven of free food and no work promised and produced by Major J. Divine, a black, benign, inexplicable little cultist...
...Father" Divine was not present. He and his big old yellow wife, "Mother" Divine, were said to be in Richmond, Va. In charge was John F. Selkridge, Father Divine's Bishop. The Newark police promptly declared the Divine Heaven a disorderly house, although the resident blackamoors of the cult slept in segregated dormitories and there was no question of moral turpitude. All the cultists were turned out. Black Bishop Selkridge and four others were taken to the station house, held in bond...
Puzzled over the difficulty of maintaining even a pork chop Heaven on earth, Bishop Selkridge and his four followers rocked quietly back and forth in the Newark jail last week, still muttering their chant, "Peace . . . Peace . . . Isn't it wonderful! Peace...
...Romeo & Juliet, distinguished herself as Flo Honeydew in The Lady Slavey. After an unsuccessful engagement in London, she discovered a one-cylinder farce called Tillie's Night mare, played it in Manhattan for two years and on the road for three. It was in this that she sang "Heaven Will Protect the Working Girl...
...idea that "all the world loves a lover" apparently leaves the robust subordinates of Mr. Apted quite cold. Heaven only knows how many budding romances that might conceivably lead to finer things have been hopelessly atropied by the insistence of those ample gentlemen that there be no sitting upon the dormitory steps. No official explanation of this action is forthcoming; hence, we can only assume that so much easily combustible material upon the steps constitutes a dangerous fire hazard...