Word: methodistic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Southern Methodist graduate himself, he explained his interest in Ivy League concerns by twirling his Laval-like mustache and drawling: "I just feel sorry for them Harvard. They like their liquor...
...step last week. Two U.S. Protestant churches, each the result of a successful merger last decade, announced they had taken the first step toward merger. One is the Congregational Christian Churches (1,049,575 members), which in 1931 united the descendants of the Pilgrim Fathers of 1620 with a Methodist offshoot founded in North Carolina in 1793. The other is the Evangelical and Reformed Church (685,571 members), formed in 1934 by combining the Evangelical Synod (a Midwestern fusion of Lutheran and Calvinistic thought, not to be confused with the Evangelical Church, which is Methodistic) and the Reformed Church...
Cigars were passed, to the surprise of many a Protestant leader present. One of them smiled, said the gesture was like "serving ham to a Catholic on Friday." Catholics had provided both meal and cigars, so everybody laughed and went right on talking shop-Roman Catholic to Methodist, Jew to Episcopalian, Lutheran to Congregationalist...
...Tylertown's biggest day; it was also the biggest day in the life of bony, dynamic Lester Williams, 40, editor of the weekly Tylertown Times. Williams got the idea for the community thanksgiving one morning at a revival service conducted by Brother Jim Sells, a Methodist preacher from Crystal Springs. For the great day, proud Editor Williams' Times (circ. 2,350) appeared in a special edition of 56 pages...
...Presbyterian Church, the great dining hall at Notre Dame University. Called in at the time the original designer of St. John's, Architect Christopher Grant La Farge, stepped out, Cram scrapped La Farge's Romanesque-Byzantine plans, redesigned the cathedral in Gothic. Manhattan's Christ Church (Methodist) he made Byzantine, because that effete style struck him as appropriate to its location -wealthy, hoity-toity Park Avenue...