Word: lindseyism
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...Vienna, the notably progressive Judge Sieber ("the Judge Lindsey of Austria") ruled sternly last week upon a libel action brought by a young woman against a man who admitted boasting of his intimacy with...
...Court of Appeals, unmitigatedly damned the folly of parents who send their sons to college with automobiles, said: "Rather than do that I would buy 30 cents' worth of powder and blow him up. It would be fairer to the boy." Much more he said, called Judge Ben Lindsey's trial marriage proposal (TIME, Jan. 24) "absurd idea," said of famed evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson that she "crossed the entire country capitalizing her notoriety...
This advertisement states: "Judge Ben B. Lindsey will soon introduce into the Denver legislature a bill to provide for a new form of marriage...
First, there is no such body as the "Denver Legislature." Second, if the Colorado legislature is meant, Judge Lindsey is not a member and could not, therefore, "introduce" any bill...
When he was invited to speak at Denver University, the student council became alarmed, canceled the lecture. Whereupon, a "Thinkers' Association" sprang into being and invited Judge Lindsey to debate against the Rev. Dr. Burris A. Jenkins of Kansas City, Mo. How strenuously "thinking" is viewed with alarm in Denver was evidenced last week. Vice President Ralph Batschelet of the Thinkers' Association, thoughtfully taking his way to his fiancée's house, was set upon, dragged into an automobile by four men, stripped, punched, flogged and pitched into a ditch on the outskirts of town. Secretary Margaret Parlow and other...