Word: roach
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...high society girl is the lowest thing on earth." Dr. John Roach Straton, thunderer of 57th Street, Manhattan, has returned from Europe. Said...
...Mark Kent is wonderful as a brow-beaten, nervous wreck, while Viola Roach, as Mrs. Valentine, is convincing in her indication of how his ruin was accomplished. Except in her sterner moments, Miss Roach's very laugh causes one's hair to stand on end; how Walter Gilbert and Edward Dauney, who are Mr. Paradee and the lawyer, respectively, manage to conceal their agony, and in fact, actually seem to enjoy her fooleries is miraculous. Everything must be forgiven, however, for Mr. Kent's sake. He is not the only good thing about "Rose Briar" by a long shot...
Another attempt was made to remove Dr. John Roach Straton from the pastorate of his Manhattan Church. Proposals to cut his salary from $9,000 to $5,000, to bring in a certain assistant, and various other supposedly antagonistic moves were defeated by Dr. Straton's friends. Dr. Straton is in Europe...
...Bill Poster. An amazing one-reel Hal Roach comedy, guaranteed to take the taste of almost any super-super-super-feature out of one's mind without pain...
Heresy Hunters, Dr. John Roach Straton and 30 other members of the Fundamentalist League of New York and vicinity descended upon the Baptist headquarters at 30th Street and Fifth Avenue, New York, marched to the room of the American Baptist Foreign Mission Society, demanded to see the files of that office. The Board of Managers of the Mission Society (liberal to the core) held a stormy four-hour session with their Fundamentalist brethren (conservatives absolutely), and finally refused to open their files. The Board of Managers found that there were no specific, written charges against Baptist missionaries in the foreign...