Word: churched
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...black casket of the only millionaire on the Court rested beneath six wavy-flamed candles in the gloom of St. Matthews Church, the man most mentioned last week as Pierce Butler's successor could jingle all his wealth in his jeans at any time. Frank Murphy, once Mayor of Detroit, High Commissioner to the Philippines, now Attorney General of the U. S., was freely nominated by the Palace Janizariat to Butler's seat before the black drapes were placed there...
...said to have asked: "Mama, do all these people belong to me?" Queen Emma answered: "No, my child, it is you who belong to all these people." Her preparation by private tutors for queenship was guided by this principle. At 18, in 1898, she was crowned in the New Church at Amsterdam, swearing to support the Constitution and uphold the liberties of the people...
...chilly Cambridge library: "I wore all the clothes I owned, all the sweaters, all the coats. I wore mittens and gloves and I sat writing and copying those letters, with tears partly of cold and partly of joy running down my face, because that library at Christ Church College had never been heated and it has grown colder by geometrical progression for 500 years...
Although the Roman Catholic Church hates war as much as the next Christian, its attitude towards war has always been realistic. Modern simon-pure pacifism, as unrealistic as it is high-minded, has been fostered more by Protestants than by Catholics. Yet as World War II began to loom, widespread signs of pacifist leanings appeared among U. S. Catholics. At first, the pacifism of such leaders as Bishop John Aloysius Duffy of Buffalo had a narrow basis: fear that Catholics might be called upon to fight as allies of the U. S. S. R. With that fear removed, there remained...
...there is left not a trace. In view of this, the new Freshman survey course on "The Christian Religion", projected by the Divinity School for next year, comes as something of a novelty. Planned to deal mainly with the philosophy of Christianity, with emphasis on the present-day American church, it represents a new trend in the function of the Divinity School...