Word: spiritism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...many hours, returned again to his rose-strewn path after a brief detour to transact private business in Washington and Manhattan. The path led him to Ottawa, Canada, at the head of a whizzing formation of twelve U. S. Army planes from Selfridge Field, near Detroit. He and the Spirit of St. Louis made a perfect landing to the huzzahs of a crowd assembled for Canada's Diamond Jubilee (TIME, July 4). One of his escort, Lieut. J. Thad Johnson, was less fortunate. Circling in a close triad formation while the plane of honor landed, Lieutenant Johnson confused...
...himself on record with the solemn pronouncement: "It is something that Dayton will not soon forget." Last week, with the incident five days old, a Dayton department store-one of several that had "played up" the Lindbergh visit in previous self-advertisements-proved Mayor McDonald right by advertising a "spirit of economy" bargain sale with the sarcastic legend: "There will be no disappointments in this demonstration...
Manhattan newspapers, like summer-silly urchins, threw Pastor John Roach Straton of Calvary Baptist Church and his son Warren Badenock Straton, 19, into the lake of metropolitan publicity last week. Their excuse for the "hazing" was Son Warren Badenock's recent epileptiform "baptism by fire of the Holy Spirit" and Father John Roach's quarrel with five of his deacons a fortnight ago (TIME, July 4). The newspapers were "following up" these "stories." It was incumbent upon the Stratons to swim or sink...
...Healy arose, furious. No chandelier could fall on him and not be punished. Not on your-ugh-life! He kicked the tangled mass, fetched a poker and beat it, smashed it, crashed it, until his comrades fell into the spirit of the thing and started flinging other things about the room-glasses, salvers, cruets, chairs, ale bottles...
...this Pastor John Roach Straton was responsible, cried five deacons at the church meeting last week. The antics must cease. Indignant, members of the Bible class, huddled together like college students yelling for their team, prayed that the Holy Spirit strike Deacon John Hurst, chairman of the Evangelistic committee, in salvation or else in punishment. Before police might come, sober members of the congregation hushed the malcontents. The deacons resigned...