Word: rev
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Parishioners of St. Michael and All Angels' Protestant Episcopal Church, in Berwyn, Chicago suburb, last week, went to the church house for dancing lessons started by the rector's wife. She is Dorothy Deuel, famed in Broadway musical shows, before her marriage a year ago to Rev. Henry Scott Rubel, as one of a featured sister dancing team. She hopes, she said, to be able to add to the parish funds through her classes...
...Wichita Falls, Tex., Rev. J. Frank ("Killer") Norris, Baptist parson who shot and killed a parishioner last year "in self defense," harangued for Hoover in the municipal hall. Some one threw a gas bomb. The meeting dissolved...
Hotbed. It is the conviction of those who write plays for Broadway that Puritanism is not a state of mind but a vice; thus they attack it with knives and reformatory fury, instead of explaining it. Hotbed, like Revolt a week ago. deals with a blue-nosed divine, the Rev. David Rushbrook. The scene of his hypocritical virtuosities is a college this time, for Author Paul Osborn himself has been a pedagogue. An assistant professor seduced the Rev. Rushbrook's daughter, after drinking whiskey...
Born. To the Rev. Dr. Robert Forman Horton, 73, famed English Congregationalist, president of the National Free Church Council; and Mrs. Violet Basden Horton, 36, a nine-pound daughter; in London. Mrs. Horton, when a baby, was baptized by Dr. Horton...
...Rev. John Roach Straton, pastor of the Calvary Baptist Church of Manhattan, purchased, last June, a hotel at Greenwood Lake, N. Y., which he planned to use as the base of a summer Bible camp. Last week, the hotel burned to the ground. Dr. Straton and his wife, who were spending a few days at their summer home at the other end of Greenwood Lake, rushed to the hotel in time to hear the final crackles of the fire. Like Senator Heflin of Alabama, Dr. Straton smelled a plot by his enemies...