Word: portadown
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Dates: during 1925-1925
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...Portadown, Ulster, the Rev. W. P. Nicholson costumed himself to preach his Sunday sermon. He rolled his trousers up to his knees, exposing two fine stretches of fatted calf. He unbuttoned his shirt, baring a chest mottled with a biblical growth of curly hair. Then he mounted his pulpit. "I want to show the girls," he announced to his gasping, giggling, shrinking congregation, "how they look to others when . . . they wear short, sleeveless, low-necked frocks. I strongly . . . condemn such costumes. They bring tears to the eyes of the girls' elders...