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End of Year Pitch-A-Thon

HISTORY This Week

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Is Your Pitch Going to Require Acting?

The year is 1878. Henry Ward Beacher, a well-respected preacher in the country, has been entangled in an affair with one of his own congregants. The woman's husband ends up suing Beacher for criminal conversation. Is that like a euphemism for adultery?

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