Word: shriners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Colonel Smith is a Moose, Elk, Shriner, Knight of Pythias, Woodman, etc. He once managed Mr. Taft's Illinois primary campaign. He has been once a Congressman (1919). He often says: "I'm just an ordinary...
...fray went to the local Hospital for Crippled Children, and the Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine were responsible for staging what proved to be a combined football game and babbitts' revel. To drum up publicity, one Hugh K. McKevitt, Illustrious Potentate, ardent Mystic Shriner, tossed a football from the 23rd floor of the San Francisco Telephone Co. Building. Then he tossed another- and another-and another. Meanwhile Brick Muller, famed Californian right end of the "All-Westerns," scampered about 320 feet below and finally caught Potentate McKevitt's fourth downward pass. Baseball fans...
...Detroit, some Shriners were tormenting a sad circus-camel that had been procured to contribute a big laugh to some approaching initiations. They caused him to serve as a "hurdle," prodded him with sticks, guffawed and jeered at his bewildered antics. Suddenly the camel, goaded by an intolerable incivility, wheeled on the shivering Shriners. His grey lips rolled back. He bit a Shriner fiercely in the shoulder. His ungainly hoof shot forward. He broke a Shriner...
...branch stores, and gained the title of "the music man." He "later became identified with the Victor Talking Machine*" (the words are those of his autobiography in the Congressional Directory ). Still later he turned to real estate and construction; finally to politics. He is a 32° Mason and Shriner, and (also according to his own statement) "has one daughter, Vera Bloom, a well-known writer...
Woodrow Wilson: "A band began to play Dixie near my house. Mrs. Wilson and I went to the window and there was the Hejaz Temple (Shriner) Band of Greenville, S. C. I called: 'Will you play The Star Spangled Banner ?' They did, and it was reported that tears stood in my eyes...