Word: mormon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...character is excellent. He creates a traveling pitchman who runs out of water in the desert, and is found dead drunk after two days of guzzling Magic Elixir to alleviate his thirst. There is a Charles Addams-type family of half-witted bandits, and a wagon train of Mormon emigrants inspired by frequent bleats on a ram's horn. But Ford fails to weld these details together with much of a plot, and relies on the second rate songs of his cowboy chorus to fill in the gaps. When Mr. Ford, like the little girl, is good he is very...
...Promise. Brack Lee, at 51, is as ruggedly independent an the pioneers who settled in the shadows of the bleak Wasatch range. A 32nd degree Mason and member of no church in predominantly (74%) Mormon Utah, he had defeated Mormon Democrat Herbert Maw in 1948 by promising to run the state just the way he had run his real estate business in the coal-mining town of Price...
...presses shipped from the East; the early Latter-Day Saints had paid the expenses by chipping in beans, hams and venison. Today's Latter-Day Saints are still made to feel responsible for the paper's support. The church sends the paper free to a nonsubscribing Mormon for two weeks. Then, if the new reader wishes to cancel the "subscription," he is expected to notify Apostle Petersen first-and give a good reason...
...From the Book of Mormon, meaning honeybee, now the symbol of Mormon industriousness. Deseret was also the Mormon name of Utah...
...Vardis Fisher's Children of God (1939), a historical novel about Mormonism, and Fawn McKay Brodie's No Man Knows My History (1945), a biography of Mormon Prophet Joseph Smith. They attribute Prophet Smith's visions to his "imagination" instead of divine inspiration, and picture the early days of the church as filled with sexuality and violence...