Word: methodistly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...time to chase a lot of rats out of the State pantry," shouted the Rev. Carl F. Lueg, Methodist pastor of Hammond, La. "Business is picking up, eh, boys?" to newshawks said huge, rich ex-Governor Richard W. ("Dick") Leche, who turned the ruins of the old Huey Long machine over to Brother Earl Long in the nick of time...
Soon there was more work for the Chief Clerk. A Madison Baptist and an Italian Methodist canceled their dates to pray for the Senate. A Lutheran, Rev. Morris Wee, instead of praying when his turn came, ambiguously read a psalm: Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful...
Today slim, bald, horn-tufted with white wool like an Uncle Tom in business clothes, he has one son who is an African Methodist Episcopal bishop in Capetown, South Africa, another who is a physician, a daughter who is a St. Louis high-school teacher. His third son is a cashier in his father's bank, and another of his five daughters is a teller...
...American Friends Service Committee (Peace Section), Brethren Board of Christian Education, Fellowship of Reconciliation, Friends Book Committee, Methodist World Peace Commission, Mennonite Peace Society, Women's International League for Peace and Freedom...
Favorite subjects of research are Shakespeare (102 studies), Milton (46), Chaucer (44), Balzac (40), Goethe (39) and Spenser (33). U. S. writers in whom scholars are most interested are Whitman (16), Melville, Emerson and Poe (14 each). Compiler Osborn found many duplications, e.g.: Two scholars, at Southern Methodist and Ohio State Universities, are compiling bibliographies of Poet Archibald MacLeish's works...