Word: clergyman
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Then came a new headmaster-a big, twinkly-eyed Episcopal clergyman named Albert Hawley Lucas. He had been a Marine private during World War I, later assistant headmaster at Pennsylvania's Episcopal Academy. He dressed in tweeds, liked to smoke pipes, played goal on the faculty soccer team. The boys at St. Albans soon found themselves calling him "Chief...
...headlong out of a conference to see that she got proper care; once, when he attended a Halloween party in his old Marine uniform, he danced so hard that the pants split down the middle. The Christianity he taught was never stern. "He could have been any kind of clergyman," said one alumnus. "He was a priest for the Catholics, a rabbi for the Jews...
...certain stone in Central Park. He was an expert billiard player, a master of Greek, Latin and Hebrew, and a seasoned music critic. He was in the U.S. foreign service, serving under Ambassador Brand Whitlock in occupied Belgium in World War I. Since he had also been an Episcopal clergyman, his diary is studded with the names of such people as New York's Bishop Manning and Chicago's Dr. Bernard Iddings Bell...
Swank St. Mark's School, some 25 miles from Boston, couldn't find a clergyman for its headmaster. So last week the school's trustees did the next best thing: they chose a man who had been born at St. Mark's, raised at St. Mark's, educated at St. Mark's, and after four years at Princeton and one at Yale, had returned to St. Mark's as a teacher. He was William Wyatt Barber Jr., a squirish, 39-year-old gentleman with a wife named Peg and a dog named Thor...
Many a New York Episcopal clergyman has been staggered by Green's prodigious energy. Ever since he arrived last month, he has seemed to be everywhere at once in the teeming, 170-parish diocese. On the opening day of his mission, he thought nothing of preaching seven times in six different churches...