Word: sharon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Wales, whence he emigrated to Pittsburgh 48 years ago. Grym y groes (The Power of the Cross) is the favorite song of all Welsh revivals. The Singing Secretary of Labor sang in Welsh for two reasons: i) The song had never been translated into English; 2) at Sharon, Pa., before his radio set sat David James Davis, 80, harkening with vast delight to his son's cheerful voice. And before their radio sets throughout the land sat many other Welshmen. Next day at Cabinet meeting Secretary Davis announced: "Apparently most of the two million Welshmen...
...sake of the novel, Skippy s friends and relatives had to be given last names. So his mother is Mrs. Skinner and some of the others are collar buttons, Hecky (personification of juvenile persistence), Sooky (pathetic phlegm), Carol Sharon (Skippy's girl), Milkman Lovering. The place they live in is called Morrisville. The plot is Skippy's show, BULL RUN (admission by collar buttons), his troubles at school, his baseball team, his blood-curdling threats and how he loves Carol Sharon...
...Memphis, Tenn., last week, went 1,500 dyers and cleaners, delegates to the twenty-second annual convention of the National Association of Dyers and Cleaners of the U. S. & Canada. To them spoke Frank A. Weller, Sharon. Pa., president of the association. Irate, President Weller talked chiefly of racketeers, recommended that the association go on record as being "unalterably opposed" to racketeering (see Letters), and refuse association membership to any dyer and cleaner known to have racketeering connections. Dyers and cleaners feel that unjust, unfavorable comment on racketeers has gravely injured the dyeing and cleaning industry...
Next, he comes snorting into the tent of Sharon Falconer, a pretty, vicious and successful evangelist. The audience is permitted to hear his harangues for heaven and then to overhear the back stage scene wherein Gantry gains quick access to the couch of this ignorant and lusty lady. With her he goes to Atlantic City, to inaugurate a pier tabernacle, the biggest in the world. It is while he is making scurrilous advances to a choir singer that Elmer Gantry, casting away a cigaret causes this gaudy temple to burst into flames-a conflagration reproduced upon the stage with tissue...
Before the premiere, there was some feeling that the play would be offensive to Manhattan God-fearers; disputes arose in matter of how much its bitterness should be quieted to avoid the censor. It was not toned down much. A Cross was visible in lecherous episodes and Sharon's trumpets had jazz-mutes in them. Ructions among the producers led to postponements and the retirement of William A. Brady from his sponsorship. On the first night, the press agent, having left his job, leaped upon the stage with Sharon's converts, voicing a mock repentance. The crude vigor...