Word: jesus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gaff, he may be a member of the Communist Party. Members are hardly admitted, easily expelled, must "walk a straight & narrow way. With a naughty old wink at the Kremlin and another at the Vatican, the Webbs liken the personnel of the Communist Party to the Society of Jesus, its supremacy in the U.S.S.R. to that of the Pope in his temporal glory. They quote Stalin: "We may say that the dictatorship of the proletariat is substantially the dictatorship of the Party, as the force which effectively guides the proletariat." The Webbs poke mild fun at the Bolshevik fondness...
...surplice and violet stole, Father Theophilus repeated the prayers of the Church and loosed all the forces of the Lord at the devils day after day for 23 days. Finally, the Iowa woman smiled and for the first time in twelve years said: "My Jesus, mercy! Praised be Jesus Christ...
...believed that such publicity would harm the Church, he offered some theology. The facts of possession and exorcism are part of Catholic dogma. But no Catholic is obliged to believe in any particular account of a case of diabolical possession outside of those recounted in Scripture-such as Jesus casting seven devils out of Mary Magdalen (Mark. 16:9) and exorcising devils out of a man called Legion into swine (Luke...
...Wichita, Kans., before he took the stand in his suit for $1,491 overtime wages he claimed from Wichita Transportation Co., Christian E. Klag folded his hands and intoned: "Dear Jesus, help me this morning to be truthful and honest and to show my cause is just and that I have been unfairly dealt with. Help the jurors to see the light, we ask in Thy name. Amen." Judge Roby Nesmith promptly declared a mistrial, dismissed the jury...
...father was a Scotsman who was taken to Utah by his immigrant family after their conversion to the faith of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. They covered the last thousand miles westward on foot. David Eccles prospered, founding one of the Northwest's great lumber companies, later branching into beet-sugar, banks, insurance, rapid transit. Before he died in 1912 he persuaded Son Marriner to accept his church's "call." Two early years of Reserve Board Chairman Marriner Stoddard Eccles' life were spent in Scotland in the frock coat and silk...