Word: missionize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Alloway, Acting Superintendent of the mission in the absence of Reformed Gambler Callahan, rushed forth and peered at the signs through his tortoise-shell glasses...
...cried to "Mr. Zero." "This mission has been in existence for 20 years and we don't need you to tell us how to run it. Get out, or I'll call the police...
...call of "Jerusalem Slim"* and would gamble and riot no more. Now he is the Rev. John Callahan, Superintendent of the Hadley Rescue Hall, No. 293 Bowery. At 7 p. m. every evening he admits some 175 vagrants, who are permitted to sleep on the floor of the mission during the night, but must arise and depart at 5 a. m. lest they slumber while they might be looking for work...
Last week his "strike" against the early rising-hour enforced at the Rev. "Johnny's" Mission took the form of a parade by shabbily dressed men carrying placards...
...school of Tsaral diplomacy, M. Georg Tchitcherin, now Foreign Minister to the Soviet Union, represents a late and almost perfect flowering of the outworn cult of secret diplomacy. He still employs all its stock phrases, catch-subterfuges which seldom deceive a rabbit-for example, he never "goes on a mission" but "travels for his health." Yet when cornered and pressed for categorical answers to specific questions he speaks with the adroit tongue of a sibyl or a Machiavelli. Last week he arrived at Paris as expected (TIME, Dec. 7), and the Olympian game of interrogating him was resumed by correspondents...