Word: mormon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...soil is not so rich as Europe's in buried clues to the great treasure hunt of history, but it has had its moments. In 1827, Joseph Smith told of finding near Palmyra, N.Y., the cache of inscribed golden tablets* later translated into the Book of Mormon. Some years later another Mormon named James Jesse Strang found another cache of engraved tablets (brass this time) in Walworth County, Wis. In 1869 diggers near Cardiff, N.Y. unearthed what was thought to be petrified proof positive of a vanished race of American supermen-until it developed that...
...Readers found him as gabby as Winchell, as irascible as Pegler. He was as short-tempered with the New Deal as Mrs. Ailshie was, but the affinity ended there. From time to time the Statesman had to square itself with readers by slapping him down editorially. A one-time Mormon who now belongs to no church, he railed at Christmas, funerals, Sundays. When Catholics found it rough reading and complained, he promised last winter to offend them no more...
Birth of Bedlam. Strong men and weak, good & bad-from Mormon Elder Sam Brannan to Roger Dearborn Lapham-have tried with varying success to run or rob or manage "The City" since it began life as Yerba Buena 112 years...
Saint or Sinner. Smith's kingdom, as he said, was of this world. In Mormonism's early, monogamous days, big, handsome Joseph exclaimed: "Whenever I see a pretty woman, I have to pray for grace." Sometimes grace failed. A Mormon apostate published a vitriolic exposure of Joseph's clandestine marriages. Then one day, after long argument with his (original) wife, Joseph announced a new revelation ; by it, plural marriage became a part of the Mormon code, remained so until...
Joseph Smith Jr., the New England farm boy obsessed with the idea of digging for buried treasure, who claimed to have "translated" the Book of Mormon from golden plates (by putting a "seer's stone" in his hat, then pulling the hat over his face), was an out-&-out impostor...