Word: churched
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tradition of the ancient bells of the Church of St. Mary-le-Bow in London is that anyone born within reach of their chimes is a Cockney. The chimes are also used during British Broadcasting Corp.'s medium-wave broadcasts in German, and lately in Germany anyone within reach of them has been in danger of having trouole with the Gestapo...
...dark old countinghouse at Church and Chambers Streets in Downtown Manhattan, with old-fashioned desks, high-backed chairs, an ancient parlor stove, some 60 years ago went a Vermonter named Henry William Putnam to merchandise and distribute his invention-a bottle stopper. Mr. Putnam and his bottle stopper began to make money. Mr. Putnam also invented a glass fruit jar, made more money. In 1898 when, grown old and tired, Mr. Putnam called his son into his office and turned the business over to him, it was worth...
...principle: if men are changed, nations will change, the world will change. To many Protestant churchmen-but to few Catholics (most of whom deny the reality of Buchmanite "change")-this is a praiseworthy and exciting aim. Hence many a Protestant, conscious of the unhappy shortcomings of his church, gives his support to the happy shortcuts of the Oxford Group, rather than hinder something which may do some good. Buchmanism's brisk conversions (drunks into teetotal testifiers, golfing brokers into junior wardens, black sheep into white sheep) appeal to many an earnest, evangelical modern; its vague theology does not offend...
...Methodist Episcopal Church, the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, and the Methodist Protestant Church are and shall be one united church." When Bishop John Monroe Moore of Dallas, Tex. voiced those words, in Kansas City's Municipal Auditorium one night last week, 900 delegates to the Methodist Uniting Conference answered in roaring unison: "We do so declare." Bishops and delegates then cried aloud: "To the Methodist Church thus established we do solemnly declare our allegiance, and upon all its life and service we do reverently invoke the blessing of Almighty God. Amen...
...musicology must go a great deal of the credit for this revival of works of undeservedly neglected composers. To it also must go much credit for the rebirth of great bodies of musical literature--the medieval music of the Roman Catholic Church, for instance. American musicology, in the person of Carleton Sprague Smith, is making an attempt to revive another little known type of church music, the psalm tunes of early America. In his lecture at Paine Hall last Friday he began a discussion of the 17th Century Calvinist setting of these psalms. Mr. Smith, who is by no means...