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...Springfield offensive threatened several times in the early innings, only to be silenced by the right-hand slants of the Crimson ace. One run was earned off his delivery, that where, with two out. Wood's triple was followed by an infield roller which was turned into a safety...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NINE TRIUMPHS 11-3 OVER SPRINGFIELD | 4/29/1929 | See Source »

...village of New Hampshire, Ohio, the Rev. Ray Dotson, "Holy Roller" Methodist, so wailed and shrieked, so frothed and grovelled, that he got Fred Conrad, a 200-lb. traction worker, all worked up. Fred Conrad went home to "save" his father. The father protested. So 200-lb. Fred Conrad went on a fast. He would, he cried, fast for 40 days and nights "like Jesus did." He would save every soul in New Hampshire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Like Jesus Did | 3/4/1929 | See Source »

Last week Fred Conrad had shrunk to 140 Ibs. His father, still impenitent, but quite alarmed, made Holy Roller Dotson explain that even fasting can be overdone. Reluctantly Fred Conrad swallowed some beef broth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Like Jesus Did | 3/4/1929 | See Source »

...right," said Roller Dotson. "He won't die. God will take care...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Like Jesus Did | 3/4/1929 | See Source »

President Lowell will speak at 2 o'clock in Harvard 6 on the subject "Facts and Dogmas of Democracy," and the Vagabond hardly needs say that anyone missing such an opportunity no longer deserves the privilege of wearing the vagabonder's insignia--curiosity rampart on a background of roller-skates...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 2/14/1929 | See Source »

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