Word: chaplain
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...coughing, sneezing, pounding my chest, clearing my throat; I went to a hospital-but still could not stop an attack of hiccoughing which hung upon me last week for two days and two nights. It would have afforded me small comfort to know that King George V's chaplain, the Very Rev. Dean Albert Victor Baillie of St. George's (Knights of the Garter) Chapel at Windsor Castle, England, was similarly afflicted in Manhattan four years ago, while visiting at the home of Arthur Curtiss James, financier, yachtsman, railroader...
...Joseph J. Muir, Senate chaplain, gave the blessing. Deep-voiced John C. Crockett, reading clerk, was toastmaster. James D. Preston, genial superintendent the Senate press gallery, announced the arrival of the world's largest underslung pipe, six feet long, made of pasteboard. "What mal it smell so bad?" chirped an insolent page. Investigations reveal a copy of the "Senate Rules with Dawes' Amendments" (the amendments shot full of holes). From the bowl of the pasteboard pipe other gifts for the Vice President emanated...
...Presbyterian divine who had held many offices under the Commonwealth, notably being chaplain General Monk. After graduating from Trinity College. Cambridge, he came to London under the patronage of the Duke of Buckingham, with the intention of earning a living as an actor. But though, it is said, he was a fine reader, his seemingly incurable stage fright made an actor's career out of the question...
Married. Viscount Dillon, 83, Chairman of Trustees to the British National Portrait Gallery, onetime curator of the Tower of London Armories; to Mrs. Margaret Louisa Phillips, 60; at London, by Chaplain in Ordinary to George V, the Reverend F. A. S. F. Folkes, brother of the bride...
...Cadman Snubbed. Although Dr. S. Parkes Cadman, famed for his radioed advice on all manner of topics (TiME, Dec. 21), was onetime a chaplain for the New York National Guard, he disapproves of emphasis on things military. The other week he said so plainly and publicly, ignoring the fact that he was to be the commencement speaker at the New York Military Academy's graduation exercises. Last week his intended hosts wrote a curt note withdrawing their invitation...