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Word: methodistly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first, William Capers (1790-1855), was a Methodist bishop. His son, Ellison Capers (1837-1908), Confederate brigadier, was an Episcopal bishop, as is his son, William Theodo tus Capers (1867-), bishop of West Texas since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 8, 1937 | 2/8/1937 | See Source »

Familiar to most U. S. blasphemers is the ballad about the Biblical football game played on Christmas Day in St. Peter's old back yard. Last week before an eminently respectable audience-a father-&-son dinner in Brandywine Methodist Episcopal Church, Wilmington, Del.- Football Coach Harvey John Harmanof the University of Pennsylvania picked a Biblical football team he would have liked to coach. The lineup...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Biblical Team | 2/8/1937 | See Source »

Several times you have mentioned Wellesley College as the educational institution attended by Mme Chiang Kaishek. Two of the Misses Soong attended Wesleyan College, in Macon, Ga. Is it possible these two colleges have been confused? The latter is a Methodist institution and the oldest chartered women's college in the world. What...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 25, 1937 | 1/25/1937 | See Source »

...Washington Post on the topic: "Do Newspapers Do More Harm Than Good?" Said Brother Christopher, arguing the affirmative: "Felix is a diplomat of the status quo- he comes before you as a Talleyrand; I, shrinking in my intellectual exposure, will be a Sally Rand." Cornered at a Methodist Bishop's Council in New Orleans, famed Prohibition-crusading Bishop James Cannon Jr., 72, admitted he had tasted liquor for the first time when his doctor last fortnight prescribed 30-drop doses of wine. "But I still don't like it," he snapped, declaring Prohibition would return...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jan. 18, 1937 | 1/18/1937 | See Source »

...civic pillar and the official Chaplain of famed Nancy Brown's column in the News. Dr. Jones possesses a roomful of Lincolniana and knows the calls of practically all U. S. birds. Dr. Jones's recipe for a good preacher: "He should get religion like a Methodist; experience it like a Baptist; be sure of it like a Disciple; stick to it like a Lutheran; pay for it like a Presbyterian; conciliate it like a Congregationalist; glorify it like a Jew; be proud of it like an Episcopalian ; practice it like a Christian Scientist; propagate it like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Federal Council's Biennial | 12/21/1936 | See Source »

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