Word: church
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...active in church work and affairs connected with your fraternal organization, but you still find time (40.8 days a year) for your favorite hobby. Reading is tops-closely followed by fishing, gardening, photography. Your usual golf score is around 95. (You had 12 golfballs at the beginning of 1947, and during the year you bought 13, found six, acquired nine by "other means." By the beginning of 1948 you had lost eleven, demolished seven, given away...
Grandfather Henry was one of the nine children of John Wallace, a high-tempered farmer who emigrated from Ireland to Pennsylvania. Eight of the nine children died of consumptive diseases. But grandfather Henry lived to be almost 80-an ordained minister in the United Presbyterian Church, a doer and dreamer, a smoker of Pittsburgh stogies, a man of vast physical bulk, who quit the regular ministry to homestead, later to edit and write for the family's Wallaces' Farmer. He wrote a three-volume story of his life and a robust column, "Uncle Henry's Sabbath School...
...Dear Guru." But the public also began to hear of an odd-duck Wallace who, in an awkward, headlong way, 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...
Dedicated by Generalissimo & Mme. Chiang Kai-shek as a Christian church in Nanking: the presidential mansion. The Chiangs, who live elsewhere, had promised themselves (in 1937) that they would convey the mansion as such a gift if the Japanese were defeated...
...poet, an obscure contemporary of Michelangelo's, was trying to describe one of the seven figures which the sculptor had carved for the Medici Chapel in Florence's Church of San Lorenzo. Charles de Tolnay, a Michelangelo scholar and member of Princeton's highbrow Institute for Advanced Study, has done much better. In a newly published book of bold erudition (The Medici Chapel; Princeton University Press, $20) De Tolnay interprets the entire chapel in the light of a single theme. Deep inside De Tolnay's brier patch of facts and shrewd guesses lies new evidence that...