Word: head
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...procession of the Lord was marching through Sheffield, England. At its head was a brass band blaring hymns from atop a wagon; next, on a white horse, came the onetime champion wrestler of Northumberland, now a convert to God. After him in a carriage rode the Generals William and Catherine Booth, and behind marched the uniformed soldiers of their Salvation Army. Then the Devil attacked...
...cold, hard soil for evangelism. In 1880, General Booth's devoted and indefatigable disciple, George Scott Railton,* had landed in Manhattan at the head of seven female soldiers. He moved into Harry Hill's Gentleman's Sporting Theater, Billiard Parlor & Shooting Gallery and started to preach. But America, like England, received the hosts of William Booth with hostility...
...deeply religious but not a puritanical family, in which father Pugmire was second in command. In whatever dining room the family happened to be using along its gospel travels, father Pugmire always hung the motto: "Christ is the head of this house, the unseen guest at every meal, the silent listener to every conversation." Family prayers were said every morning and every night. Serious-minded Ernest read to improve himself, learned to play the euphonium. Occasionally he used his fists capably when the boys in the neighborhood taunted him about his parents being Salvationists...
Died. Brigadier General Arthur Vincent McDermott, 61, who as wartime head of the nation's biggest draft board (he called it "agony headquarters") put 900,000 New Yorkers into uniform; after long illness; in Manhattan...
...Solomons, fit neither for marine nor Gook. Some men went "Asiatic" (regular Marine lingo for rock-happy). A sentry walked his muddy post for four hours, stopped at the last tent as his relief reported, put his rifle to his mouth and blew the top of his head off. This seemed so reasonably symptomatic of the division's island sickness that a marine in a nearby tent only growled: "Now I gotta find the padre. It's getting so they won't even let a guy outa here that way without a pass...