Word: altar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last two clashes with the Government, the outlook was none too bright. Last year the president of Episcopal St. Paul's University, Tokyo, was forced to resign because, in reading the hallowed Imperial rescript on education in chapel on a national holiday, he stood on the altar steps, below the lectern where the Bible is read, thus ranking the Mikado lower than...
...groom slapped the bride. The bride retaliated in kind, and also refused to go through with the nuptials until all references to dentures were eliminated from the ceremony. Eventually she had her way. The course of television love met further obstacles. Before the bride arrived at the studio altar, in came Fan Dancer Faith Bacon. Clad in a brassiere and a G-string, with feathers in her hair and on her heels, Miss Bacon insisted, wedding or no wedding, that she was going to do her uninhibited stuff before the television camera. In honor of the occasion, Miss Bacon offered...
Into action went potent Publisher Carter. In a two-column, front-page editorial entitled Mr. Budd Bows His Neck he blazed away at Burlington President Ralph Budd (member of Franklin Roosevelt's Defense Advisory Commission) "for sacrificing the Fort Worth & Denver City Railway on the altar of Burlington front-office convenience." The "Burlington Boys," he roared, had put the "snatch" on the road to bolster deficit-ridden C. & S., were cold to the fact that 190-odd Fort Worthians would lose their jobs by removal of the offices to Denver. He even suggested that Texas, whose railroad taxes were...
...Nassau] I should keep up friendly social relations-go to functions at Government House and so on. If the Duke presented himself for Communion without giving me notice, I think I should give him Communion; to avoid public disgrace, I wouldn't pass him over at the altar. But I should see him privately afterward, and ask him not to come again...
...Last week Son Henry Hilgard Villard, at his marriage in Manhattan to Mary Caroline St. John, fainted as he rose from the altar after the ceremony, was carried out by his brother, Oswald...