Word: tex
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...heart and a twisted foot kept husky Ernest Elmer Baker out of the War, but he got to Germany after it was over. There, according to his mother, "he fell from grace." Back in Menard, Tex., where he worked occasionally at bricklaying, Ernest Elmer Baker made up for his lapse by the zeal with which he took up Pentecostalism in 1933. Pentecostalists roll on the floor and believe that prayer will cure anything, even a sliced artery (TIME, July 23) or a rattlesnake bite (TIME, Aug. 20). Last year Ernest Elmer Baker, 38, got the idea that it would cure...
...Dallas, Tex., police picked up a shaggy-haired young man they found on the street late at night, dressed only in long cotton underdrawers. At headquarters he explained: "I'm Heckter. I hail from up yonder by Weldon, Ark. One night maw was reading to me out of a book and she come across a sign that said somethin' about how you can learn to be a great singer from a teacher in Dallas. Maw made me a pretty new shirt, give me some money and showed me the road to git on comin' this...
...Detroit last week Rev. J. Frank Norris, blatant Baptist lately called from Fort Worth. Tex. (TIME, Jan. 14), began to preach his doctrines of damnation in a tent which he claims is the nation's largest. From a tent pitched nearby came the raucous blare of the Curtis Fashion Plate Circus. Preacher Norris indignantly prayed God to put a stop to this disturbance...
Most of the good people of Orange, Tex. were in their beds when into the Silver Slipper roadhouse strode a 6 ft. 2 in., 220 lb. man brandishing two pistols and displaying a Texas Ranger's badge. The Orange revelers recognized him as Rev. Edgar Eskridge, 40, hard-hitting Baptist crusader, stern critic of local law enforcement...
Married. Sarah ("Sally") Brisbane, 22, pretty daughter of Hearst Columnist Arthur Brisbane; and John Reagan ("Tex") McCrary Jr., 24, handsome onetime sportswriter on The Literary Digest, organizer of the Association of College Editors which it promoted; in Manhattan. For the reforming, vaguely liberal A. C. E.. Mr. McCrary drafted a letter warmly attacking Hearst policies. "Tex" McCrary now works for the New York Mirror, owned by Publisher Hearst, directed by Father-in-Law Brisbane...