Word: bishops
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...female crusaders, and others. Sidney Ball, as the greengrocer-alder man, gave a performance as polished and humorous as his h'accont Peter Davidson, who has a more difficult role as the defender of snobbery, delivered his lines with perfect force and finesse. In the role of the Bishop, John Simon also knew fully what he was about, possessed some articulate eyebrows, and except for a tendency to speak in a sing-song at times, gave a good performance. As the prayer-mumbling Sexton, Jerry Kohn was frequently very funny but sometimes gave the character a meaning outside Shaw...
Dudley, on the other hand, has the weakest pitching. Dave Bishop, the catcher, is efficient enough, as is third baseman Herby Lewis. The Commuters are not first division material, but no team in the circuit will be able to beat them without sweating. Dudley lost to Lowell, 3 to 2, in its only game...
Said solemn Charles Ewaskio, 31, assistant professor of physics and a Catholic for slightly more than two years: "There's no doubt that [Methodist Bishop] G. Bromley Oxnam is right about us ... It has been made very clear that unbaptized babies don't go to heaven...
...prohibition to the U.S. Like many of his contemporaries who believed that morality could be legislated, he periodically struck out at lesser demons. Dancing, tobacco, Coca-Cola and even football ("neither manly nor Christian") felt his indignant lash. But in 1930, this paragon of virtue, by then long a bishop and according to H. L. Mencken "the most powerful ecclesiastic ever heard of in America," was accused by the elders of his own church of immorality, bucketshop gambling, flour-hoarding (during World War I), adultery, lying and "gross moral turpitude and disregard for the first principles of Christian ethics...
Freshman dinghy sailors meet Yale tomorrow afternoon at the Milford, Connecticut, Yacht Club for their first race of the spring. The Crimson boat will be sailed by John Bishop and Ed White, who came in second in the Freshman Intercollegiate Regatta, and who defeated jayvee teams from six greater Boston colleges last fall...