Word: cassocks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Over his purple-sashed cassock and heavy gold pectoral cross, Episcopal Bishop James Pernette De Wolfe of Long Island tied a white apron. Over his purple-edged skullcap he put a chef's white hat. In the spacious grounds of his cathedral at suburban Garden City, the bishop was chief cook (but not bottle-washer) at a clambake last week for the Episcopal Actors' Guild...
...took up tennis and boomerang-throwing, who Indian-wrestled with an aide in his office between conferences. Before coming to Washington he had left his grandfather's Calvinistic Church, had had a look in at Catholicism and had finally joined the Episcopal Church. As an acolyte in cassock and surplice he regularly served at Mass. But now he had turned to Far Eastern mysticism. He became fascinated with a fork-bearded Russian theosophist named Nicholas Roerich, and later, when he became Secretary of Commerce, sent Roerich to Outer Mongolia to do research in grasses. Roerich was the "Guru" (Spiritual...
...smart young Querétaro lawyers who arranged for overnight billeting of the aged and the very important. Among these last was Querétaro's Father Sebastian Berumen. Thin and steelyeyed, he marched in straw sun helmet and knee-length gabardine coat to cover the cassock that by law he is forbidden to wear in public. With him walked his chief aides: Tranquilino González, president of Querétaro's Chamber of Commerce; John Herbert, English owner of Querétaro's ice factory, and three other businessmen and lawyers. All were followers...
Outside Notre Dame recently, a dignified, grey-haired civil engineer undertook to explain Father Riquet's success: "Voilà, at last a priest who makes sense. I don't care about his Jesuit politics, nor even about his soutane [cassock]. He represents something which we lack in France; he fills a gap because he is able to reconcile logic and faith...
...Hopeful. In the window appeared a tired, ascetic, unshaven old man in a worn black cassock. This was Padre Antonio. In a commanding voice, he announced that he would first bless the sick. Then he singled out some of the most pitiful in the sweating, excited yet strangely quiet crowd. "Stand up and walk," he said, pointing to a cripple. Others tried to catch his eye. "No, not you. Get away. You there, stand up and walk." Some of the apparently crippled stood up and walked before the silent crowd...