Word: stratons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Preacher John Roach Straton cried from his Baptist pulpit: "The pot is calling the kettle black!... I agree with Bishop Manning that the Catholic Church has invaded the precincts of his sect, but the Episcopal Church in its relation to other denominations has assumed very much the same attitude of self-appointed superiority...
Commenting on the case only this morning Dr. John Straton Narrow told the Corrugated Press correspondent that it was the worst example of mystery he had seen since the birth of the Neanderthal man. Also Her Royal Highness the Queen of Rheumatica has offerred to send her comments over the C.P. wire every day for the next year at reduced rates...
...this big battle between Straton and Mather tonight I'm putting my money on Mather. I took his course. He may, naturally be disqualified for bringing rocks with him to sock this herbiverous dinosaur of the gay nineties. But I doubt that--Mather is fair even to igneous intrusions from New York's open spaces...
This is the question which has been argued time and again on the lecture platform, in the pulpit, and in the courtroom; it is the question which at 7.30 o'clock this evening. Professor Kirtley Mather and Dr. John Reach Straton will argue at the Phillips Brooks House...
Professor Mather has been recognized as a foremost modernist since his appearance in the Scopes trial: Dr. Straton, his opponent on Thursday evening, has attracted no less attention by his vigorous defense from his New York pulpit of the disputed Biblical passages...