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...League is essentially a religious organization. Mr. McBride is a minister who, after education at Muskingum College, had several obscure pastorates before beginning his unsensational rise in the League's service. There are other anti-salooning ministers more powerful than he. Principally there are two Methodist Bishops ? Nicholson of Detroit, Cannon of Virginia...
...Water boils on earth at 212° F.) While they were measuring, Earth passed between Sun and Moon, causing an eclipse. Moon's temperature dropped to 196° below Zero. Less than an hour later the lunar temperature was 155° F. Edison Pettit and Seth Barnes Nicholson, who reported this, estimated that when no sunlight reaches the Moon, her temperature falls to 459° below Zero...
...Barker. George Fitzmaurice directs intelligently and movingly the consequences of a circus-man's proud affection for his son and his fear that circusing will spoil the boy's chance of amounting to something. Highly admired as a stageplay two seasons ago, the story by Kenyon Nicholson is better than most screen-stories; and Milton Sills, the barker, is convincing even when he chokes his girl friend (Betty Compson) for contriving the seduction of his son by one of the carnival ladies (Dorothy Mackaill). Out of the sound device comes barker-lingo; Douglas Fairbanks Jr. (the barker...
...confused with the Gideons, Christian Travelers Association of America, who place Bibles in hotel rooms, whose organization was founded in 1899 by John H. Nicholson and S. E. Hill, traveling salesman...
...Meredith Nicholson takes pride in the fact that he, like his hero, is a provincial American...