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Word: clergyman (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...young Episcopal clergyman from Philadelphia, Pierce showed intense ambition from the time he married wellborn, well-educated Cornelia Peacock in 1831. He took her to Natchez, Miss., where he had been offered a parish, preached there four years, then abruptly resigned his pastorate and announced his intention of becoming a Catholic. While admitting misgivings ("I once thought all Catholic priests instruments of the Devil"), Cornelia wrote to her sister: "I am ready at once to submit to whatever my loved husband believes to be the path of duty." The path was clear to Pierce: it led to Rome. Cornelia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Scandal Revisited | 4/8/1957 | See Source »

...week's end, however, the quick-thinking clergyman had made his peace with God and with the Fifth Commandment. Said he: "I did not kill the man because I wanted to. I did so because I had to. He had just killed one man, and he was coining to kill me. I was a victim of circumstances. It was an accidental death, just as though someone had deliberately stepped in front of my car. I could have died. But I didn't feel that a dead minister would help...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIANA: A Victim of Circumstances | 4/1/1957 | See Source »

Monkeyshining Paradox. Emily, by impersonating the bride, thoughtfully intervenes to save Fatigay from marriage to the heartless Amy. ("Marriage between cousins is perfectly legal," says the clergyman when the imposture is discovered.) As Mr. and Mrs. Fatigay return to the Congo, the groom tells shipboard interviewers: "My message to your readers is simply this. It is true my wife is not a woman. She is an angel . . . Behind every great man there may be a woman, and beneath every performing flea a hot plate, but beside the only happy man I know of-there is a chimp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Lower Than the Angels | 2/25/1957 | See Source »

...another chapter: short pieces of pipe, three cheap pocket watches and some flashlight batteries. With hardly more than a nod from the cops, George put on his street clothes with his customary fastidiousness, bade his moaning sisters goodbye, and, beaming through his round, gold-rimmed glasses like a parish clergyman off on his rounds, drove downtown to headquarters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: George Did It | 2/4/1957 | See Source »

...members in the succession to his dukedom. And all this is brought to pass with the typical Guinness finesse. He plays all the deceased members of the family, as well as the intrepid hero. Most wonderful for its charitable satire is his portrayal of the doddering Anglican clergyman of the clan of D'Ascoyne who is rather too fond of his port. But most of the other of Mr. Guinness's creations are equally memorable. He has managed to pack the essence of Guinness in these roles which reflect his range from the Lavender Hill Mob to Captain's Paradise...

Author: By Gerald E. Bunker, | Title: Kind Hearts and Coronets | 2/4/1957 | See Source »

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