Word: methodistic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Time for the Law. Will Grant's life has been unorthodox. Working his way through Southern Methodist University (1924-28), he sold so much advertising for the students' annual April Fool paper (he made $1,000 for himself in two weeks) that the University abolished the paper, on the grounds that big business was not a suitable student endeavor. He went on to law school at Texas University, where he became so engrossed in earning his keep that he never got around to becoming a lawyer...
Chaplain (Lt. Colonel) James T. Wilson is the quiet, gentlemanly member of the School Faculty, whose work is outstanding in a group of exceptional instructors. In this he is but running true to form since he is the son of a Methodist clergyman who, though retired, still has charge of a church in Illinois, where Chaplain Wilson was born and reared...
...little fellow, he always liked to make speeches. When he came to play at our house, he'd climb up on a stool and declaim. He was a Baptist, but when he made those little speeches we always said he seemed a lot more like a Methodist...
...Methodists and Baptists, the two largest Protestant denominations, have lagged badly in filling their quotas. This is partly because Army educational standards for chaplains are very high (many Baptist and Methodist ministers have not had four years of college plus three of seminary training) and in the case of the Methodists, partly because they were so pacifistic between wars that many ministers still refuse to volunteer as chaplains...
...amendment's support came a sudden flash flood of letters and telegrams from U.S. drys. Sample, received by Kansas' Senator Arthur Capper: "The Lydian Class of the College Hill Methodist Sunday School . . . urges the adoption of the Lee amendment...