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...childhood in the hope of profits as illicit, of their kind, as any ever wrung by a conscienceless manufacturer from the labor of children at the loom. In the name of evangelism - that sacred word that has been defiled so often that it is at last almost a common butt - this horrible thing is being done." Readers wondered what the Christian Century was driving at. The author of the piece quickly made it clear that he was discussing the case of 14-year-old Uldine Utley, whose evangelical struggles had lately been endorsed by such stalwarts of the church...
...they are plain "our-Mr.-Zerkle," "our-Mr.-Bragg." Along the road they used to meet, instead of small-time vaudeville folk, really queer dicks like David Wilbur, Rhode Island's gentle, weatherwise, forest wildman, whose passion was scratching signs on pumpkins; Dan Pratt, the sawbuck philosopher, whiskered butt of a score of colleges; Ann Lee and her twelve disciples who rumor said were self-made eunuchs; and Johnny Appleseed, wilderness pilgrim, with his body in a coffee sack, his head in a tin pot, who took Swedenborgian Bibles to the Indians and in 46 years of roaming planted...
...bedroom, took off his clothes, climbed into his bathtub, began to soak. . . . Beside the tub he had prudently laid out an automatic pistol-for times are strenuous in Chile (see below). Soon Señor Rioseco stood up and lathered himself. At that moment a soldier's gun butt crashed against the door. . . . Tough, the door held. The soldiers demanded of Señor Rioseco that he come out and submit to arrest. They shouted that he had embezzled 3,000,000 pesos ($360,000). "Open the door in the name of the law! . . ." Within the bathroom the pistol...
...Loree's Delaware & Hudson, said he: "That's all very true. But it's also true that 12½% of the presidents of the Delaware & Hudson committed suicide." One of the eight had done so. There was also the time when Mr. Underwood was the butt of witticism by Chairman William Haynes Truesdale, of the Delaware, Lackawanna. "Who was that Negress you were talking to?" boomed the Erie's President Under ood at Mr. Truesdale. Mr. Truesdale, who always seemed sleepy eyed, answered: "She was not a Negress. That was Phoebe Snow and she has just...
...Coolidge silence was no longer a butt. Fishing took its place, in a song that said, ". . . you must be an outdoor man like Calvin Coolidge." Uncle Sam was shown being shouldered off the front pages and into the funny papers by roaming royalty, the Hall-Mills case, Aimée Semple McPherson and a Chicago gunman. "How about another Bruce Barton interview with President Coolidge?" asked Uncle Sam. "Apply at the business office," said the editor, "for rates on political advertising...