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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Please explain your authority for the use of the word "papeese" as plural for the word papoose (TIME...
Rookie Giebell had more than the Indian bats against him. A Ladies' Day crowd of 45,000 streamed into Cleveland's Municipal Stadium laden with eggs, eggplants, cauliflowers, fruit. They were there to get back at the Tigers for calling the Indians Crybabies, Boohoo Indians and Papeese (plural for papoose). As soon as the Tigers went on the field they were pelted from the stands. By the time Rudy York smacked one of Feller's pitches for a two-run homer, the diamond looked like a vegetable plate...
...feel, however, that we should pay a little attention to your reference to the Dictionary of American Biography and its statement referring to the number of Joseph Smith's alleged plural wives. No sensible person will take this seriously in the light of the undisputed fact that he had no children from any such women. Even Vardis Fisher, author of Children of God, has written as late as in February of this year, that there is no proof that Joseph Smith "had any children from any except" his wife Emma...
...devil's own time trying to explain this mysterious, well-drilled maneuver. In Strömberg's view, it is initiated and controlled by an "immaterial wave of organization." Though immaterial, the guiding wave has a structure in spacetime. Strömberg calls it a "genie" (plural, "genii...
...Vardis Fisher, no Mormon himself though of pioneer Mormon stock, won the $7,500 Harper Prize Novel Contest with Children of God, a 769-page epic of Mormons and their two famed leaders, Joseph Smith and Brigham Young. Author Fisher told in lusty detail of Prophet Smith's plural marriages before his lynching by a mob at Carthage, Ill., in 1844. To Reorganized Mormons, who believe that Joseph Smith neither practiced nor preached polygamy, the book was a plural pain...