Word: chapel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first day of the conference 46 Japanese and 76 U. S. and Canadian students met in the Reed College chapel, squirmed in the pews while the speakers talked of nothing but war. Japanese Consul Ken Tsurumi tried to strike an optimistic note: "I do not consider a U. S.-Japanese war inevitable." Glad when the assembly was over, the Japanese delegates wanted first to see the unemployed. Back on the campus they settled down to talk of foreign trade, Manchuria, Communism, dictatorship, missionaries...
...choose their sixth bishop, successor to Rt. Rev. Samuel Babcock Booth who died last June. In four ballots they eliminated such of the 42 Vermonters as had been nominated, went outside the State for the third successive time, elected Rev. Dr. Joseph Wilson Sutton. 54, vicar of Trinity Chapel, Manhattan. Vicar Sutton learned of his election with surprise while vacationing in Mexico...
Rich old Trinity Church, whence such bishops as William Thomas Manning have been elevated, has seven satellite chapels, snug berths which are insulated against penury as well as against inordinate theo logical liberalism. Grey-haired, good-looking Dr. Sutton became curate of Trinity Chapel 22 years ago after having been headmaster of St. Paul's School in Baltimore. Made vicar, he was nearly elected suffragan bishop of New York in 1921. Dr. Sutton is a bachelor. Inside his small parish he devoted himself to friendly pastoral visiting. Outside it he demonstrated interest in causes like the Society for Promoting...
Thump! Thump! and Thump!?the King of Arms knocked on the door of Henry VII's Chapel, musty and magnificent...
...name of the King," replied the King of Arms, "His Royal Highness, the Great Master of the Most Honorable Order of the Bath demands entrance into the Chapel of the Order...