Word: clergyman
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...hero of the occasion was an unindentifled clergyman who rushed into the burning room and dragged the flaming draps outside to the applause of several hundred students who had gathered around...
...last July a young Methodist clergyman from Boston University, the Rev. John M. Swomley Jr., stood before the U. S. Senate's Committee on Military Affairs and argued against the draft act. Dark, intense Pastor Swomley snapped up senatorial eyebrows when he said...
...Eliot's Five-Foot Shelf); on clean collars (Cluett-Peabody collar ads); on shaving (Gillette); on working (Alexander Hamilton Institute); on Jesus and the Bible (The Man Nobody Knows, The Book Nobody Knows). Barton, a born preacher and sloganeer, a superb luncheon-club speaker, son of a Tennessee clergyman, implemented his creed of service by fighting his way into Congress in 1938 as an amateur from Manhattan's only Republican district-the Silk-Stocking Seventeenth, compounded of Park Avenue and nearby slums...
Sumner started his professional life as an Episcopal clergyman. But nine years after his graduation from Yale he went back there as professor of political and social science, started compiling a great mass of anthropological data which comprises the bulk of Folkways. In it he covered the origin and evolution of marriage and family, religion, government, abortion, infanticide, social codes, crime & punishment, slavery, patriotism and chauvinism, labor, wealth and 1,001 other facets of human society. Many surviving mores (a term he himself brought into common scientific usage) were irrational, often harmful, and he said so savagely...
...Marriage and Divorce since it was set up in 1925 has been grey, liberal Right Rev. Herman Page, 74, retired Bishop of Michigan, who feels that "the church must start with biology and the sanctification of sex." To implement this realistic view, the new canon would require every clergyman to make sure that the Christian ideal of marriage as "a life-long union of husband and wife" is understood and sought by the persons to be married. Candidates must sign a statement promising "to make every effort" to realize that ideal. Every clergyman is further required to "use all diligence...