Word: archbishop
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Southwest; Uncle Dick Wootton, who traveled 5,000 miles in unmapped, hostile country; James Ohio Pattie, who preferred adventurous hardships to riches and domestic bliss; Armijo, sheep-thief who became the absolute dictator of New Mexico; indefatigable Bishop Lamy, hero of Willa Gather's Death Comes for the Archbishop; Billy the Kid, who "briefly ruled a region as large as France because he was faster on the draw than any other man in it"; Elfego Baca, Mexican bravo who got a sheriff's job by standing off a posse of Texan sharpshooters for 36 hours; many another border...
...week Britain's U. S.-born Department Store Tycoon Harry Gordon Selfridge held the rope of the great tenor bell. Shocked by the lapse of a British legend, he had paid for the restoration of Bow bells. He handed the rope to white-ton-sured Cosmo Gordon Lang, Archbishop of Canterbury. The oldsters of the Ancient Society of College Youths who traditionally ring the bells stood ready. Archbishop Lang leaned firmly on the bell-rope. Across Cheapside the great bell of Bow-said again."I-DO-NOT-KNOW!" The eleven smaller bells chimed...
From Canterbury the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury broadcast exaltation for the "restoration in England of the great conception of the Catholic Church...
...stone Bishop Manning arranged a Greek-Episcopal service during which St. Paul's sermon was read in Greek as well as English. A choir of Greek moppets sang a Byzantine hymn to St. John the Divine. Greeks and Episcopalians were photographed together as bushy-bearded Athenagoras. Archbishop of North & South America, presented the stone in a velvet-lined box on behalf of Chrysostomos, Archbishop of Athens, who wrote to his western brother saying: '"I consider this stone more precious than gold or silver...
...more. This time it was with proposals to reduce England's population 10% by sterilizing the unfit and teaching birth control to lower class women. Up jumped Bishop Arthur Foley Winnington Ingram of London, to cry that this was "rather off the mark." Suave Dr. Cosmo Gordon Lang, Archbishop of Canterbury, intervened and changed the subject...