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Pastor John Roach Straton hastened to write out a 5,000-word apologia pro sua vita. There was no Pentecostalism rife in Calvary Bapist Church; the woman of Lindbergh Monday was a victim of the general Manhattan hysteria or was ill; the five deacons were fractious and had better have resigned; they were "making a grandstand play for publicity." He concluded: "In closing I wish to say that I was duly elected as the engineer of this Gospel train here at Calvary Baptist Church. And throughout the ten years of my leadership the overwhelming majority of the officers...
...ladies flock around it and the laughter's simply rife...
...importance as sovereign and arbiter elegantarium was emphasized again last week when the press of the world took front page notice of the fact that I was seen in Scotland wearing my trousers creased down the front instead of at the side as is my usual wont. Speculation is rife as to whether I will resume my side creases on returning to London...
...characters and the tales of them must have been true to their period else how should they have been accepted? I dare say there were many prim and proper people living in the 18th century, but every memoir of the time is abundant proof of the licentiousness which was rife in the beau monde. Naturally I did not choose a conventional bread-and-butter miss as my heroine...
...previously allowed it to become noised about that the Duchess would not be delivered for another fortnight. When he stated last week, that the royal birth was imminent, and that "a certain form of treatment"* had been resorted to after, consultation with other physicians, excitement and anxiety were rife among Britons...