Word: preachers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Another witness declared that she recognized Lollar's voice among a hooded mob that had hauled her mother, her sister and herself, together with three men visitors, into the woods and whipped the three of them with a rope after a preacher had prayed over them. A man whipped by the Klan testified: "I recognized Brownie Lollar when he laughed...
Jesse learned to kill in the Civil War. The son of a steel-willed, thrice-married mother (whose first husband, Jesse's father, was a preacher) ran away at 16 to join the Southern guerrillas. His commander, "Bloody Bill" Anderson, liked to cut off the ears of the Yankees he killed and hang them on his horse's bridle. "Dingus" (Jesse's nickname) equaled him in savagery, finally rose to share the command of a guerrilla gang fighting in Texas. After one battle he "cold-bloodedly finished off the Reverend U.P. Gradner, who pleaded that...
Then he went to Lowell House, where Housemaster Elliott Perkins showed him a "typical student's room"--B-14. It was the suite of the visiting preacher...
...delirium in the stands; coming as it did after cliff-hanger finales in both pennant races, this hitless brand of play was not the kind to inspire frenzied cheering. In the second game, the story was almost the same, in reverse. Brooklyn's skinny, curve-balling lefthander, Preacher Roe, gave up only six scattered hits while his teammates babied the one-run lead they had acquired in the second inning to a 1-to-0 victory...
...record-minded, Rizzuto equaled a series mark by getting no fielding chances at shortstop during a nine inning game. Ralph Branca was the second successive Brooklyn pitcher to strike out three times. Preacher Roe did it Thursday...