Word: smith
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...people of the Mormon Church, believe that President George Albert Smith, the Prophet, Seer, and Revelator for the church today, can, and does receive revelation from the Almighty and His servants. . . . The last revelation was not the one ending the practice of polygamy ; it is merely the last revelation contained or recorded in the "Doctrine and Covenants," one of our Church Standards. There have been many revelations, visions, etc. since . . . and I am quite sure that there will continue...
...state that the Prophet Joseph Smith found no hidden gold. He did. He found the gold plates upon which the Book of Mormon was inscribed. . . . The symbols found on them were no more mystic than written French to a fourth-grade American schoolboy. Magic Spectacles which you mention [are] undoubtedly the Urim and Thummim, an affair which was worn on the person, much as a telephone operator's mouthpiece, and which is not to be confused with the seer-stone...
...remainder of the article I find very informative and as a whole quite correct. . . . I find the high spot in the statement telling how President Smith shares his working hours with the pastime of "slyly popping bonbons into his mouth." It may also be mentioned that he can always be noticed stroking his goatee with his left hand...
Fashion notes from Longfellow Hall were added by Smith graduate Helen Mills of New York City, who found the local college habit of "going around in flannel shorts the most ridiculous and absurd thing that I have ever seen...
...jailbreak cliches. There is the decent but weak warden (Roman Bohnen) who can't control his mild but maniacal head guard (Hume Cronyn), a sadist who plays Wagner while softening up a prisoner with a rubber hose. There is the boozy prison doctor (Art Smith) with a heart of gold and some of the crummiest "philosophy" ever scraped out of the bottom of a cracker barrel. There is the stool pigeon who is efficiently murdered by his fellow convicts; and the steady old hand (Charles Bickford) who grimly joins the rebels when his parole is canceled. The one comparative...