Word: methodistic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...corner lot with the gang, occasionally earned pocket money by sneaking onto neighboring golf courses to retrieve lost balls. He could outrun the gang-and the cops-every time. But a stern talk from Ma Robinson put him out of business. She was, and is, a fervent Methodist who can be volubly graphic on the subject of hell. (A few weeks ago, when the Dodgers were not doing so well, Jackie wrote to his ma: "Quit praying just for me alone, Ma, and pray for the whole team...
...make the Enterprise's news, Marjorie is working hard to develop its squad of eight rural correspondents, all hired because they had no experience. Last week, on one of his new radio programs, Editor Gould had all eight in for an ad-libbed chat. "How many people in Methodist Corner?" he asked one. "About 15 families," she told him. And how did she get the news?,Well, by telephone, mostly. "Are they all on the same line?" asked the boss. "Sure," she explained, "that's how I get the news...
Dressed in spotless white satin, with a pink ribbon in her curly black hair, Margaret made her debut as a concert pianist last week in Chicago's Carey Temple (African Methodist Episcopal). She gave the audience a curtsy, saw that her doll Rosezarian was seated on a chair beside the grand piano, then clambered up on the bench and began a Bach minuet. After that and a selection from Mozart's Magic Flute, her teacher had to ask the audience to hold their applause until the first part of the recital was over. Altogether, Margaret played 14 pieces...
...prohibitionists already had their own man. The Prohibition Party's presidential nominee was Dr. Claude A. Watson, 62, onetime minor league ballplayer, now a Free Methodist preacher in Los Angeles. This was pink-cheeked Dr. Watson's second try; he polled 75,000 votes in 1944. He opened his 1948 campaign last week with a barnstorming tour of dry Kansas, flying in his own plane. He hoped to do better this time. Said he: "If the church people vote like they pray and if the prohibitionists stand fast . . . I will be the next President...
Rachmaninoff: The Bells (Hollywood First Methodist Choir, Santa Monica Symphony Orchestra, Jacques Rachmilovitch conducting; Disc, 8 sides). A somewhat murky musical adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe. Performance: fair...