Holy Joe
Example Sentences
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His father, a fiery Methodist known as "Holy Joe," used to tell him: "When I take a thing to prayer, I always succeed."
From Time Magazine Archive
"Holy Joe" McKee, grave, handsome, scholarly, was born & bred in the sprawling Bronx north of the Harlem River.
From Time Magazine Archive
Holy Joe was a complete bear, even in his dealings with heaven.
From Time Magazine Archive
Credited with some part in kicking "Holy Joe," Tammany stumbling block, upstairs into a $50,000 job was Tammany's foxy little Boss John Francis Curry.
From Time Magazine Archive
I had been bred to worship force, it was the only deity I knew, and Holy Joe was in my eyes the symbol of force.
From The Blood Ship by Springer, Norman
