Word: clergyman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...machine had won the first round. When the lie detector was introduced, its grim little pointer spotted surprised liars almost as soon as they opened their mouths. Hardened virtuosos who could fool a cop, a clergyman-or even a wife-were no match for the polygraph...
William Makepeace Thackeray, the eminent Victorian novelist ( Vanity Fair, Pen-dennis), was a passionate gambler and for years indulged an enigmatic infatuation for the wife of a fashionable London clergyman. These somewhat Elizabethan lapses have been whispered about. But they could never be fully confirmed. Reason: before his death, Thackeray told his daughter, Anne, to see to it that there were no Thackeray biographies. She did-by the simple expedient of locking away the bulk of her father's correspondence and other vital data...
Vidkun Abraham Lauritz Quisling was awakened at 2 a.m. and hurried from his cell to a square in Oslo's somber Akershus Fortress. Awaiting him were a clergyman, a state prosecutor and a firing squad, an officer and ten men. No photographers, no reporters recorded his last abasement or his last heroics...
...Brooklyn's Holy Trinity Church (Episcopal), first tried this experiment on Lincoln's Birthday in 1925. He took a group of his young parishioners across the river to Harlem to celebrate the day with the kids of St. Philip's. It worked so well that after Clergyman Young got a new parish in Manchester, he invited the Harlem pastor, the Rev. Shelton Hale Bishop, up to preach. Mr. Bishop had heard of the Harlem exchange trips of Vermont's Rev. A. Ritchie Low (TIME, Aug. 28, 1944), suggested that New Hampshire try it. Included...
C.I.S.'s boss, said the announcement, will be young (39), smart, Nova Scotia-born Geoffrey C. Andrew, W.I.B.'s secretary. Son of an Anglican clergyman, he played ice hockey at Oxford, then taught at Upper Canada College in Toronto. His job: to distribute abroad ''information concerning Canada [because] those with whom we trade must know our . . . possibilities...