Word: smith
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...biggest moment was yet to come. To insure the success of the banquet -held to raise money for the Al Smith Memorial Hospital Fund-every ticket holder had been promised a chance to win a genuine 109-carat diamond...
...rally in Olympia, Wash., said: "This is what I hoped would happen in America." But not all Americans are so sure. Some view with alarm the pious trumpeting of the Hearst press on Y.F.C.'s behalf, also the support of rightish. rabble-rousing "nationalists" like Gerald L. K. Smith. Of this kind of criticism, Torrey Johnson says: "Maybe he [Hearst] saw a million people across the country were going to Y.F.C. rallies every week and he decided to get in on the selling end. I've never gotten a dime from him and we've never...
...Joseph Smith Jr., the New England farm boy obsessed with the idea of digging for buried treasure, who claimed to have "translated" the Book of Mormon from golden plates (by putting a "seer's stone" in his hat, then pulling the hat over his face), was an out-&-out impostor...
Martyr's Crown. But as the early Mormons moved westward, across Ohio to Missouri and then to Illinois, harried from Zion to Zion, sometimes tarred and feathered, sometimes killed in skirmishes with gentiles, Impostor Joseph Smith came close to being a prophet. Smith (Biographer Brodie believes) gradually hypnotized himself as well as others. He saw himself now as a true Moses, and at the end, faced with the choice of flight or death by lynching, he wavered, then took death and a martyr's crown...
Fortnight ago, before an assemblage of publishers and authors in Manhattan's Rainbow Room, Robert de Graff, president of Pocket Books, presented Gertrudes to Ellery Queen (Frederic Dannay and Manfred Lee) for New Adventures of Ellery Queen, to Dashiell Hammett for The Thin Man, to Thorne Smith posthumously (the prize was accepted by his two daughters) for Topper, to Max Brand posthumously for Singing Guns (a western), to Damon Runyon for Best of Damon Runyon and Damon Runyon's Favorites, and to Shirley Cunningham for The Pocket Entertainer (popular with troops...