Word: revs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...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 L. Bowlby, secretary of the Lord's Day Alliance, was reported as having picked out the smallest man in the room (a stenographer), knocked off his glasses, punched him.* Somebody called the police, but they did not arrive until after Hattie Pitts of the McKendree Methodist Church lifted...
...Three days later, the Rev. Bowlby grew vexed, charged the press with publishing "false and libelous statements." His version is that he caught a gentleman's arm to prevent him from fighting, while someone else grabbed the gentleman by the coat and pulled him to the floor...
...error, denied that I was the criminal wanted." Elihu Root: "Last week, a few days after my 82nd birthday, when I had refused to be interviewed, Rumor cried I was dead. Servants, at my home, No. 998 Fifth Ave., Manhattan, told newspapermen I was accustomed to sleep late." The Rev. Canon Frederic Lewis Donaldson, first Socialist ever to become a Canon of Westminster Abbey: "In Barnet, suburb of London, I said: 'The silk [top] hat is a vicious, vile, ugly symbol of the ungodly Victorian. It is hard, unyielding, uncomfortable and pretentious, with an outside gloss and an inside...
...churchman was Rev. Dr. S. Parkes Cadman, President of the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America, and the maiden who paused on his words was Uldine Utley...
When he was invited to speak at Denver University, the student council became alarmed, canceled the lecture. Whereupon, a "Thinkers' Association" sprang into being and invited Judge Lindsey to debate against the Rev. Dr. Burris A. Jenkins of Kansas City, Mo. How strenuously "thinking" is viewed with alarm in Denver was evidenced last week. Vice President Ralph Batschelet of the Thinkers' Association, thoughtfully taking his way to his fiancée's house, was set upon, dragged into an automobile by four men, stripped, punched, flogged and pitched into a ditch on the outskirts of town. Secretary Margaret Parlow and other...