Word: clergyman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...people who have written books about Bernard Shaw, or ever will, God-fearing Tory Blanche Patch, spinster daughter of a Church of England clergyman, had the best chance to observe her subject. For the last 30 years of his life, she was his private secretary. What gives her book its own rare fascination is the fact that, as Secretary Patch puts it herself, she was never "swept away...
...said that "this gracious old gentleman may be entirely innocent of formal guilt, but he remains a gullible wool-gatherer." The clergyman also referred to Mather as "naive," and claimed that a man is known "by the folks with whom he travels...
...Tennyson. A lanky man with deep-set eyes, C. Day Lewis, 46, was born in Ballintubber, Ireland, the son of a Church of Ireland clergyman. "I wrote poetry before I could read it," he says...
Died. The Rev. Dr. Charles Reynolds Brown, 88, Congregational clergyman, longtime dean of Yale's famed Divinity School (1911-28), author of 35 books on religion; in New Haven, Conn...
...Little Moscow" got that way largely because of Ferdinand Domela Nieuwenhuis, an ex-clergyman with more passion for Marx than Luther who toured northern Holland in the igth Century. Nieuwenhuis first preached Socialism, moved on to anarchism and brought Finsterwolde with him. Finsterwolde's firebrands voted as far left as they could. Eventually, this meant voting Communist...