Word: churched
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which will require camouflage for factories and public utility works, they came to consult Mr. Frederic Stafford, art director of Stoll Theatres Corp., Ltd. Mr. Stafford heads a group of noted stage designers whose new business is to fool enemy bombers into thinking that a power plant is a church, or an airfield a picturesque village...
...Pittsburgh, Rev. Thomas Francis Coakley of swank, well-publicized Sacred Heart Church (which acquired an electrically-heated baptismal font last year) issued a pamphlet, Church Manners. Price: 10?. The pamphlet tells when to sit, stand, kneel, genuflect (drop briefly on the right knee) during services. Some other observations...
...favor of China against Japan, contributions to China relief agencies are relatively as scarce as news of Chinese victories-today scarce indeed. U. S. sympathizers contributed more than $2,000,000 to Spain during its late war, but they have given much less to China; to the Church Committee for China Relief, only $268,709 since its founding last summer. John R. Mott, vice chairman of the Committee, declares that in China is "the greatest area and volume of relatively unrelieved human suffering of modern times"-30,000,000 people in need of the barest sustenance...
...China such sustenance is among the cheapest in the world: one U. S. dollar will keep a man alive for a month. The Church Committee now sends about $10,000 a week to China, to be disbursed by Protestants and Roman Catholics as well...
...behave in church is something which has to be learned. Not only outsiders but often confirmed believers are appallingly ignorant of church etiquette. It is common practice among Anglicans and Episcopalians to "kneel" by simply bending their heads. Noisiest, least well-behaved of all Catholic churchgoers are those in Eastern Orthodox nations. For U. S. Catholics, and for such of their friends as might be interested, two useful guides to church behavior were circulated last week...