Word: chanceller
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...theatre were shown his fireplace from the Alhambra, his chair made from a pew in a church at Stratford-on-Avon, his collection of 300 watches, knick-knacks and curiosities of all sorts. In his apartment in a quiet family hotel (the Gladstone) he had a miniature cathedral chancel in one of the closets. It is not likely that...
...Herald. She refinanced the unprofitable Paris Herald, made it pay. She helped found a sanatorium and nurses' training school at Saranac Lake, N. Y., a hospital (St. Luke's) in San Francisco, another at San Mateo, Calif, in memory of her parents. She gave the central chancel window of New York's Cathedral of St. John the Divine in memory of her husband, founded in his name a London settlement house and seaside resort. Good churchwoman, she built the Episcopal residence at Manila, helped build the Episcopal cathedral there. Through her Red Cross work, she is credited...
...Manhattan, last fortnight while Presiding Bishop James De Wolf Perry, local Bishop William Thomas Manning and others consecrated Charles Kendall Gilbert, 52, Suffragan Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Diocese of New York. When non-Episcopalians are invited to such a ceremony they are often invited to sit within the chancel. But in view of Bishop Manning's rigorous theocracy, their exclusion in this instance was not offensive. They listened attentively to Bishop Manning's ceremonious discourse, which last week was to excite vigorous denunciation...
...Fosdick's party paused to study the great, stone chancel screen curving from reading desk to pulpit. Carved large on each of its seven separate sections is an aspect of the Christ...
...followers pointed out the details of the interior: ten enormous stained glass aisle windows softening the sight of his stone pulpit, reading stand and chancel screen; the 1,408 seats in the nave, some equipped with electrical earphone connections, and only 100 blocked by pillars from view of the pulpit; 'the two galleries at one end of the nave and the triforium galleries (seating 1,000) between the pillars and the clerestory windows, reached by four quiet elevators...