Word: chancel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have a very earnest word to say to the German student," thundered Chancel lor Hitler's Minister for Education Bernhard Rust last week as that sober, pudgy schoolmaster warned fanatical National Socialist students to cease agitating against certain of their professors and get down to work. "I was greatly surprised to hear a student spokesman say that the student regards it as his duty ... to inspect professors and instructors thoroughly and bring to an end certain of their activities...
...time the building was completed in 1840, the dazed Corporation of Trinity found itself possessed of a brownstone building embracing such popish symbols as a cross on the steeple and a deep chancel, and Richard Upjohn was the most famed architect in the U. S. Such a business in parish churches did Richard Upjohn & sons do that it has been said that if all the Upjohn churches from New York to Buffalo should be simultaneously fired at no point between the two cities would the smoke of the steeples be out of sight...
...lace and carefully preserved orange blossoms that her mother had worn at her own wedding 30 years ago. Her bouquet was a small bunch of lilies of the valley. Sober Crown Prince Frederick wore the blue-black uniform of a Danish naval officer with a blue sash. To the chancel rail came lantern-jawed Archbishop Erling Eidem, and after him the Princess repeated...
...Boston's Union Congregational Church-the church in down-at-heel South End to which Rev. Dwight Jacques Bradley went after relinquishing a swank one in Newton, Mass. (TIME, Sept. 24). A mixed congregation of 600 gazed in interested bewilderment at a slim, bare-foot girl in the chancel. She wore nothing but a long flowing gown. Her name was Eleanor Schirmer and she was a Newton socialite whose father was a Boston banker...
While two yellow-robed girls stood sentry-like at each side of the chancel, Miss Schirmer postured, gestured and attitudinized. The organ played Schubert's "Great Is Jehovah," and by consulting their programs the congregation knew that Miss Schirmer was interpreting "The Greatness of God." Registering wonder, adoration, obeisance, awe, supplication she continued with "The Peace of God That Passeth All Understanding" (music by Gluck); "The Universality of God" (Beethoven); "The Voice of One Crying in the Wilderness" (Bach); "The Deep Sense of Abiding in God" (Beethoven); "Angels Announcing the Coming of the Messiah" (Bach). The whole thing...