Word: wards
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have not read Paxton Hibben's book on Henry Ward Beecher, nor do I intend to so waste my time after reading your review of it. But for the first time I am thoroughly disgusted with TIME. My first impulse, after reading page 48 of the Oct. 3rd issue, was to cancel my subscription. That page, with its rehashing of the foul Beecher scandal, would have a familiar setting in the Daily News or the Graphic. It is altogether out of place in TIME. For printing such a scurrilous attack upon one of the most gifted and cultured...
...comforting; even more comforting was the idolatry of Elizabeth Tilton. Often he would go to see this lady. Some times her husband was present; more, often not. At last Elizabeth confessed to Theodore a monstrous thing. Theodore Tilton, afterwards, was not so ready to bow down to Henry Ward Beecher; finally, after resentments had smouldered and gathered for five years, he brought suit against the clergyman for alienation of his wife's affection...
There began then an uproar in the U. S. press such as can scarcely be imagined in these days when even the finest flower of the clergy cannot presume to the importance which then belonged to Henry Ward Beecher. The parishioners of Plymouth Church supported their leader, who before a court met specific charges of adultery with a stupid sarcasm. Finally after 112 days of trial, Mr. Beecher's jury disagreed and he was allowed to go free. There was, however, little disagreement in the minds of the public. For the name of the greatest preacher since St. Paul...
...thus did the Henry Ward Beecher...
...HENRY WARD BEECHER-Paxton Hibben- Doran ($5.00). *Established in 1848. Mr. Beecher was editor 1861-63. The Independent is still being published, in Boston. TIME, October 3, 1927 *Not to be confused with its President, John Grier Hibben, second cousin, once removed...