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...cylinders an edition citing the Bishop's words and further castigating King Edward, believe that Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden's wife's relatives who own the Yorkshire Post have done this at the instigation of the Prime Minister. They hear that Viscount Halifax, an eminent Churchman whom Mr. Baldwin sent to India as Viceroy some years ago, either knew in advance what the Bishop was going to say or actually put him up to it. Behind Politician Baldwin the proverbially canny Yorkshiremen discern his famed churchy wife, Lucy. They know that the Prime Minister was furious three...
...toughest-looking member of the unit." Holding pastorates in New Haven and West Roxbury, Mass., Dr. Wilkinson was in Boston during its famed police strike of 1919, became a volunteer traffic cop on the motorcycle squad. Because he was also offered the chance to drive a hook & ladder truck, Churchman Wilkinson was mildly sorry that Boston's firemen did not join the strike. He is now in his 40's, looks younger. He has not met President Roosevelt, was selected by St. Thomas' vestry sight unseen...
Visiting in Manhattan last week was a kindly, frosty-chinned churchman of 79, an Icelander and a Jesuit, whose Norse ancestors included such worthies as Queen Aud, widow of Olaf the White, King of Dublin, Thórd Gellir the Godar, who re-formed Iceland's Althing (Parliament) in 965, Loftur Guttormsson the Rich. Hrólfur Bjarnason the Strong and Svenn Thórarinsson who was a procurator and royal farm manager in 1857. When a son was born to Svenn Thórarinsson, he named the babe Jon Svensson. But Jon's mother nicknamed her child...
...preacher of the ordination sermon, Rev. George Dorey of Regina, reminded his listeners that the cause of Lydia Gruchy had been championed by no less a churchman than the late Moderator Edmund Henry Oliver of the United Church. The Church's General Council finally voted to admit women to the ministry last September...
...above its predecessors in its sincerity and candor, Honorable Estate is like them in the number of its characters as well as in the grim picture of English social decay that it communicates. It tells two major stories: one of Janet Rutherston, confused, vacillating, dissatisfied wife of a pompous churchman; the other of Ruth Alleyndene, intelligent, sensitive daughter of a manufacturer, who marries Janet's son. Janet's story, occupying the first part of the book, is the more convincing and original, despite the facts that it is mixed up with long digressions about the suffraget movement...