Word: templars
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that Rebecca, whose figure "might indeed have compared with the proudest beauties of England," did not in the end marry Wilfred of Ivanhoe who saved her from being burnt as a sorceress. Thrilled by Rebecca's stout defiance of Brian de Bois-Guilbert ("I will not trust thee, Templar!") and his mollification by her fortitude (in threatening to jump off a parapet), most children are unaware, as indeed are many grownups, that the original of virtuous Rebecca was a pious young lady from Philadelphia named Rebecca Gratz...
From another source came another conflicting story about Mrs. McPherson's condition. At Des Moines, Mrs. Peggy Myrtle King, Templar, said that the evangelist was suffering a nervous relapse because a lunatic had hurled a snake through her window. Los Angeles Templars were debating whether or not they should begin a three-day fast to restore Sister's sight, although the attending physician announced that she would probably be able to deliver the Sunday sermon...
...meek, likes to remind his listeners that his mother was a Quaker. His own faith is the Episcopalian. He drives out of Washington for Sunday services in country churches. He smokes three cigars a day. does not chew, swears privately. His fraternal affiliations: Masons (32nd degree. Knights Templar. Shriner). Rotary. Odd Fellows. (Continued Outside Congress...
Today Carl Gustaf Ekman is Grand Master of the Swedish Good Templars (Prohibitionists), foes of the famed "Bratt System" by which Swedes are allowed to buy driblets of liquor under an elaborately regulated system of permits at Government stores (TIME, Aug. 27, 1928). Last week tall King Gustaf V, still in deepest mourning for his late Queen, called to the Prime Ministry his Great Templar...
Stranger still is the fact that the Great Templar, who was called by King Gustaf last week, leads only 28 deputies-or a bare 12% of the house. He has, however, a great & good friend: Per Albin Hansson, leader of the 90 Social Democrats. Although they are numerically much the largest party, they cannot form their own Cabinet because a whole pack of fractional factions would join with the Conservatives to oust a Socialist Government. In these peculiar circumstances last week Carl Gustaf Ekman seemed to be the best tail King Gustaf could have chosen to wag the Swedish...