Word: missionizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Forsaking his mission as soul-saver for the moment, he revealed that the American game is not football at all but an unfortunate conglomeration of soccer and rugby. "And the best features of both those sports have been omitted," added Mr. Smith...
...Newark hideout he had sent an emissary to Manhattan several weeks ago.This emissary had never returned, and word had gone round that he was to be found in a barrel of cement on the bottom of the Hudson River. Krompier was supposed to have been on a second goodwill mission when he was shot in the Times Square barbershop...
...still owns land in 7 States, Mrs. Clements says her husband is now only moderately well-to-do. But they can afford to drive a Lincoln automobile, criss-cross the country by airplane keep up an eight-room apartment. Early this year three Denver Townsendites returned from a mission to Washington to proclaim that Founders Townsend and Clements were not really trying to get their scheme through Congress were simply staging enough of a show to keep the money coming in. Frank Peterson, onetime Townsend publicity director charged that the Clementses' high living was entirely paid...
Same day, their mission completed, the Duke and the Donor sailed off in company with the Trophy for Europe. As the Normandie steamed down the harbor, no publicity-minded maiden swung in the rigging. But, holding forth in the saloon was Margaret Sanger, on her way to India to spread her gospel of Birth Control...
...Salt Lake City as "Fifth," his claim to the title was thoroughly justified. His grandfather, the first Brigham Spencer Young, is, at 77, a Salt Lake City court bailiff. His father, B. Spencer Young, is an employe of HOLC. Brigham V, popular but not too pious, accepted his mission call with good grace. While the other missionaries were holding a religious meeting in a Manhattan street last week, he confessed: "I didn't go. Another fellow and I went over to the Hollywood Restaurant instead. I thought it was swell...