Word: prefixing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When "Nervous Nelly" noted that the passenger's namecard outside his door read "Secretary of State of the United States of America," he rang for the steward, expostulated, had card changed to read "Frank B. Kellogg," even insisted on omission of his rightful prefix...
...deacons"; publications are in 37 languages. They have no paid ministers. Workers receive bare expenses. Excess money gathered from believers go to further their spread of "Pastor" Russell's, now Judge Rutherford's, ideas.* Those ideas are that the Bible, the Prophets and Revelations especially, forecast and prefix all earthly doings. By judicious use of Biblical excerpts Bible Students have "established" that three periods of time, termed "cosmos," have governed human affairs. Cosmos I is assumed to have begun with Adam and ended with the Flood, at 4128 B. C. Its duration was 1,656 years. Cosmos...
...name Berg is of Germanic and not of Jewish origin, and although there are some Jews named Berg, many of these have acquired the name by dropping the prefix Blum, Green and Rosen, but even with these included, they form only a small minority compared to the Christian Bergs...
...seems to me that you do not practice what you preach, for on Page 5 of the same issue I notice you speak of William W. Russell, Jerry Shea, Edwin Denby, William V. Hodges and C. Bascom Slemp without using any other title and do not prefix "Mr." to their names. So, you lay yourself liable to the imputation of not using the "Mr." in speaking of other persons...
...prefix Right Honorable indicates that the member is a Privy Councillor. All members of the Cabinet have to be Privy Councillors...