Word: brethren
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...chapters) have shared as never before in the golden bounty of U.S. prosperity. Since 1947, overall membership in the Masonic order, biggest U.S. fraternity, has climbed 10% to 4,000,000; the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, second largest, reports a husky 25% gain in new dues-paying brethren to a total of 1,200,000. From Calais, Me. to Elsinore, Calif., more than 20 million U.S. males are entitled to participate in the mysteries and handclasps of one lodge or more. Estimated total assets of all the orders, including hundreds of plush new lodge halls: a thunderous...
...been home with the family for three nights running. Then there'll be a damn good prizefight on TV. You know what loses out."* From the Elks to the Moose, fraternal leaders blame home TV, the automobile, the country club for the new apathy among the brethren. "The young people want something a little faster," admits Odd Fellow Edward McCarty of Lamed, Kans. (pop. 4,447). The lodge has lost its old appeal of exclusiveness and its local VIP leaders, e.g., the town bankers. Says a Missouri Mason: "Men just won't go out to see their mailman...
Your article proves just one thing-that our Protestant brethren are rather too timid to enter the Roman Catholic Church through the front door, so they're slipping in quietly through the side door...
Linking Israel, the U.S. and Jordan's King Hussein together as common villains is Nasser's latest propaganda device to try to win the Arab masses. "Brethren in Arabism, brethren in Palestine," cried Cairo's Voice of the Arabs, "imagine all these things which imperialism wishes for you, American imperialism itself. Imagine it is not only intended to scatter one million Palestine Arab refugees, but the intention today is to kill them and annihilate them completely . . . Brethren, imagine your fate after [they] hand you over to your American enemy to annihilate...
...legs." Within three years James was dead, Charles I on the throne-and three years after that, Coke was back in Commons to participate in what has been called "the crisis of Parliaments." Said one member: "We shall know by this if Parliaments live or die ... Men and brethren, what shall we do?" Up stood Coke, 76 and full of "sturdy confidence," and said: "The estate is inclining to a consumption, yet not incurable. For this disease I-will propound remedies...