Word: clergyman
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...enclosed check [$100] to Ye Yun Ho is in memory of my father, Dr. Ulswell Gifford McDowell, a Presbyterian clergyman...
...days later his own most intimate friends were invited for services at our home. An urn containing his ashes stood upon the mantel, partly concealed by flowers. A string quartette played softly in another room-not by hymns but music which he himself had loved. A clergyman performed his offices in the briefest, simplest manner. Two of my father's most intimate friends spoke their own intimate words. The "funeral" was over. We passed tea and cakes. . . . Net cost - everything: $90. . . . Pagan? Who says so? HENRY E. BREDEMEIER Kenmore...
...daughter of an Oklahoma clergyman, had applied for admission to the University of Oklahoma law school two years ago. University officials conceded that her application was in order, but refused it-even though there is no other law school in the state for Negroes to go to. Ada Sipuel brought suit...
...neighbor's happiness usually lay, Stevenson believed, "altogether in the field of fancy. The clergyman, in his spare hours, may be winning battles, the farmer sailing ships, the banker reaping triumphs in the arts: all leading another life, plying another trade from what they chose. . . . To look at the man is but to court deception. We shall see the trunk from which he draws his nourishment; but he himself is above and abroad in the green dome of foliage, hummed through by winds and nested in by nightingales...
...John Lewis, 73-year-old Presbyterian clergyman who last winter burned his 77-year-old Milwaukee church because he wanted a new one, was pardoned by Wisconsin's Governor Rennebohm after twelve weeks of a one-to-five-year sentence...