Word: reverend
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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OCTOBER. Riot at the Freshman mixer. Explained one beaten Yardling, "I just never saw anything so horrible in my life." Harvard football team continues to lose. Says the captain, "We may not win, but we're consistent as all hell." The Reverend Mr. Buttrick admonishes the team for "thinking positively." A Harvard professor of economics is called before Congress to give his view on the possibilities for an economic collapse. Before a joint session he strokes his jaw and then flips a coin...
King was one of the first to ride on a bus next morning. The driver took one look at him and asked: "Is this the Reverend?" Replied King: "That's right. How much?" Told that the fare was 15? (it had been 10? when the boycott began), Martin Luther King dropped his coins in the slot, sat down with a white companion. When his trip ended, King murmured thankfully: "It was a great ride." Another who had a great ride that day was Mrs. Rosa Parks, who had started it all. She gazed peacefully out a bus window from...
...nearby insurance office tried to help Turner. The man was driven back and pelted with eggs; the woman was pushed against a storefront by another woman. Arriving belatedly, police broke up the brawl. Sneered one of Turner's assailants while being led away: "That'll teach yuh, Reverend...
...Shadow, when every yearning impulse is struggling vainly to express feelings that are too deep for words! . . . In 'Say it with Flowers' there stretch enchanting vistas of sacramental beauty like the glory of a garden or the shimmer of moonlight on a silvery sea . . ." Last week Reverend Harris' picture and words were splashed all over U.S. newspapers in full-page ads bringing readers "An Important Message ... in the Public Interest." Joyous sponsors of the ads: "The 11,000 members of the Florists' Telegraph Delivery Association...
...poetry of Robinson Jeffers and Edith Sitwell represents the heresy that Christianity's power has been gained by an appeal through the Crucifixion to "man's hidden lust for blood," the Reverend Amos N. Wilder, Hollis Professor of Divinity, said at his fourth William Belden Noble ecture ast night...