Word: stratons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...virtue, in the public eye, is often heightened by his past iniquity-as was Henry IV's,* Roach Straton's,† Julius Caesar...
...Straton, loud-speaking apostle of doom, said (TIME, Dec. 1, 1924, THE PRESS), "I was [formerly] deep in sin, loving sin, following sin, living...
...score or more of stern Baptists ranged themselves in a circle in the study of Rev. Roach Straton, Manhattan's loud-speaking Fundamentalist. It was a steaming day; flies buzzed at the window. The visitors mopped their brows and readjusted their scowls. They were nervous, suspicious; their task was weighty...
...humid did the study become that it was voted to remove to the nearby Calvary Church auditorium. There were many more questions to ask. True, this lanky cub was the son of no less a lion than Roach Straton himself. True, Roach Straton had trained this supple shoot (Hillyer Hawthorne Straton) with his own unswerving hand; had taught him righteousness with his own fierce tongue-the hand and tongue that have repeatedly been brandished to denounce modern young womanhood ("The high society girl is the lowest thing on earth!"); that have scoured Berlin, Paris and London for loathsome pictures...
...Manhattan three years ago, Dr. Norris attracted attention by predicting from the pulpit of John Roach Straton, amidst wild gesticulations, that "within one hour" the sin-steeped city would be demolished. The man Mr. Chipps, whom Norris destroyed, had come into his sanctum, the church-study, to dissuade Dr. Norris from attacking his friends...