Word: preachermen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...many as 500 anxious women attended prayer-meetings during the week at Houston, to beseech their God to prevent the Smith nomination. After the nomination and the Smith telegram denouncing Prohibition, the anti-Smith movement was given somewhat more definite form. Preachermen, including Bishop James Cannon Jr. (Methodist Episcopal) and the Rev. Arthur J. Barton (Baptist), called for a Dry rally at Asheville, N. C., next week and for a "National Jacksonian Democratic Convention" on Aug. 7 at Richmond, Va. Observers doubted that these gatherings, if held, would become any more significant than the proposed national convention of the Prohibition...
...Staunton, Va., six cops made a bet with six reverend preachers. Police against preachers would play volleyball. If the police won, the preachermen would go to jail for an hour. If the preachers won, the cops would go to church the next Sunday and stay for the sermon. ... On Wednesday the games were played. Next Sunday in the front pew of the Episcopal church sat the police force. "God" cried Volleyman-Preacherman J. Lewis Gibbs in the pulpit "is on the side that hits the hardest volleyball...
...House Office Building ladies were present; so were preachermen. A "blue law" bill was under discussion by the House Committee on the District of Columbia. Chunky Representative Sol Bloom of New York politely insinuated that square-jawed Representative Thomas L. Blanton of Texas was a liar. Mr. Blanton, who wants to close the cinema theatres on Sunday, leaped at Mr. Bloom, who wants them open; put his Texan arm around Mr. Bloom's neck. They grappled, heaved, fell across the committee table. One L. B. Schloss joined the fray, was knocked to the floor, kicked. The Rev. Harry...
...more children early in 1927." Having found few twins or triplets in the Luck and Dumbreck family trees, Lloyd's waited confidently. Last week Mrs. Dumbreck gave birth to twins; Lucky Luck collected $55000. Many an-other wife urged her husband to bet on her; pius preachermen flayed sinners who gambled on motherhood...
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