Word: shepherd
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Good Shepherd. Butler's crusty father, a Church of England canon, intended his son for the ministry. He was outraged when the young man refused ordination on the grounds that infant baptism was probably ineffectual and that the Gospel stories told by Matthew, Mark, Luke and John were too contradictory to be credible. The canon then ordered his son to become a schoolmaster or a barrister. Instead, Butler set sail for New Zealand and, helped by money from his father, became a prosperous sheep rancher. Five years later he returned to England, having sold...
...aging process, and mental illness is one of them." Another factor is the growth of cities. "City dwellers can't tolerate little aberrations [among members of their families] as well as country people." City life, too, is more complicated for the mentally ill. (A Guthrie example: "A shepherd in Wyoming might be as schizophrenic as can be. He wouldn't last five minutes in Times Square...
...Apparently born in Riga, Latvia (or maybe Minneapolis), he was indicted as an abortionist in St. Paul in 1922. The case was dismissed because of "the condition and attitude of the complainant." In 1925, Faiman told a Chicago court that he had supplied typhoid germs to William Darling Shepherd for the purpose of murdering his rich young ward, Billy McClintock. Faiman got off by turning state's evidence. A witness testified during the trial that Faiman had operated an unsavory St. Louis "massage-parlor" and was "doctor in chief" of a similar resort in Detroit...
Newsmen worried some about Tallulah Bankheaid, though not as much as when she used to keep a pet lion cub that nipped interviewers' shins. Tallulah was back on Broadway to play in Noel Coward's old (1931) Private Lives. She received the press flanked by a Hungarian shepherd dog, a miniature Pekinese and an aquamarine parakeet named Gaylord...
Handel: The Faithful Shepherd Suite (National Symphony Orchestra, Hans Kindler conducting; Victor, 4 sides). Conductor Kindler misses much of the warmth and grace of this fine music. Recording: fair...