Word: roach
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Three years ago, Rev. J. Frank Norris, best known* revivalist-Genesis-trumpeter of the Texas Baptist belt, prophesied in John Roach Straton's pulpit that "within one hour" grimy, sinful Manhattan would be demolished. Manhattan survived. Two months ago, he shot D. E. Chipps, Texas lumberman, three times. Mr. Chipps did not survive (TIME, July...
Hillyer H. Straton (son of loud-speaking Roach Straton), who heard "the trumpet call of God's messengers," was ordained a Baptist minister...
...this Elysium. Most of this has been for publicity. ... On the highest point, which is approximately five feet eight inches above mean, low down, dirty sea level, they are going to build a beautiful early Spanish missing-style $10,000,000.35 insane asylum. They got the idea from Dr. [Roach] Straton when he was down here following vice when it moved south for the winter...
...humid did the study become that it was voted to remove to the nearby Calvary Church auditorium. There were many more questions to ask. True, this lanky cub was the son of no less a lion than Roach Straton himself. True, Roach Straton had trained this supple shoot (Hillyer Hawthorne Straton) with his own unswerving hand; had taught him righteousness with his own fierce tongue-the hand and tongue that have repeatedly been brandished to denounce modern young womanhood ("The high society girl is the lowest thing on earth!"); that have scoured Berlin, Paris and London for loathsome pictures...
...believed the Baptist God would guide him in selecting a seminary to study in. The world an- ticipated that God would express Himself on this point through his servant, Roach Straton. There was no evidence pro or con as to whether the son of Roach Straton's begetting would prove a dunce, but thus far he had shown himself to be the model reverse of disobedient...