Word: clergyman
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Cyrus Townsend Brady, the clergyman and novelist, agrees that college men will on the average make better officers than any other class of civilians, and has no doubt that those who are of age should attend an officers' training camp. "If it is a long war," he says, in an article in the Yale News, "there will be plenty of time for the under-age men to become old enough to obtain commissions; and if it is a short one, it would be a foolish waste for them to leave college now and then never see service even...
...candidates for the Board of Overseers comprise the Governor of New Hampshire, the Police Commissioner of New York City, the Assistant Secretary of the Navy, a member of the Federal Trade Commission, a major-general of the army, a bishop, a clergyman who is also a schoolmaster, a judge, a physician, a man of letters, an architect, and a representation of business...
...Faversham, having essayed, in the immediate past, the roles of a faun, a gentleman gambler and a barbaric king, was quite at his best last night as a bishop of the Anglican Church. Until recently, the dramatic tradition of the English stage has tacitly and unalterably ordained that a clergyman of that religious body should invariably be a pompous and platitudinous ass. Mr. Shaw and Mr. Faversham, being men of the world and not mere dramatists, know better; and the gentle, witty, tolerant prelate of Mr. Shaw's fancy and Mr. Faversham's creation is, or should...
William H. Packer, of the editorial staff of the Boston Globe, will speak at a meeting of the Socialist Club in Stoughton 11 this evening at 8 o'clock. Mr. Packer has been a newspaper man for many years and also an Episcopal clergyman. This talk this evening will be from a newspaper man's point of view rather than from that of a social worker...
Owing to the sharpness of the janitors of Ridgely and Claverly Halls, Charles Borum was arrested yesterday for soliciting funds under false pretenses. Garbed as a clergyman, he tried to obtain money for "the Workingmen's Home of Boston," first in Claverly and then in Ridgely. "Jimmy" O'Brien, the janitor of Claverly, became suspicious and had him shadowed to Ridgely where he was recognized by the janitor there as having solicited funds for another charity some eight weeks before. While Borum was going about in Ridgely, Sergeant Rowe was summoned to make the arrest. Borum later gave his address...