Word: churched
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...doubt if Mrs. Roosevelt's silence was "shocked," on receiving Cardinal Spellman's letter. She was probably surprised on receiving such a thorough and adequate reply to her unnecessary attacks on our Catholic Church...
...also plans to direct attention to Germany's ten million refugees from behind the Iron Curtain in the hope that underpopulated Australia may consider them for immigration. "I consider it the task of the church," he says, "to oil the hinges on the doors between countries so that these doors may open more easily...
Strindberg was the son of a shipping agent and a servant girl; his dominant childhood memories were the sound of nearby church bells and a gnawing fear of practically everything. He violently loved his mother, described his feelings as "incest of the soul." Yet, as with almost all the women in his life, his love for her was tinged with jealousy and hate. When she died and his father married the family housekeeper, he cast himself in the role of Hamlet...
Strindberg's fears and passions eventually found relief of sorts in the old, familiar sound of the church bells. He came to believe that each of his ordeals was merely a penance on his own road to Damascus. He went home, and became the Grand Old Man of Swedish letters. While he was dying of cancer of the stomach, he wanted to have his children near him. One evening, while his daughter Karin was at his bedside, he picked up the Bible and murmured: "Everything is atoned for." Soon afterwards, he died...
Bench & Bar. In Dallas, Justice of the Peace William E. Richburg sentenced Wife-Beater Grady Rogers to attend church with his wife for four Sundays. In San Francisco, after Stanley John Ostram had been arrested for doing 80 on the Bay Bridge, Judge Matthew Brady suspended his license, ordered him to drive across at 45 once each month for a year...