Word: clergyman
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...efforts of the State to get a confession by less scientific methods were unending. Earl at one point was put in solitary confinement for a year. A year ago State Patrol Sergeant Joseph McCauley disguised himself as a clergyman and went to see Mary. After a few visits he got her to thinking along religious lines and finally last week, five days before her sentence was up, she decided "to make herself right with her Maker." And Earl, she said, had not only killed James Bassett. When he was younger, in Montana, he had killed three other people...
...hotchpotch of greatness and littleness, of virtue and vice, of nobility and baseness." Doubting that he is any better or worse than others, he explains his own career in terms of his temperament. His parents died before he was ten, and he was educated by a severe clergyman uncle-he would wake up at night dreaming that his mother was still alive and that he was home again. He was small, shy, sickly, and stammered badly. He confesses to an "instinctive shrinking" from his fellow men, and even when he drinks gets sick before he reaches "the state of intoxication...
...description of a man whose whole life was devoted and sacrificed to the happiness and welfare of young boys, that TIME should attempt to destroy with one malicious and ill-chosen word the work and efforts of a lifetime of such an outstanding public servant, both as friend and clergyman...
...haggard, burning-eyed clergyman last week went about his duties in St. Mary's Episcopal Cathedral in Memphis, Tenn. and in his home in the shadow of the white stone Gothic fane. People in his Bible class, at wedding and funeral services he conducted, at Holy Communion in the Cathedral, eyed Very Rev. Israel Harding Noe with silent, respectful curiosity. They had read in Memphis newspapers that this dean of the Cathedral, once a florid and jovial churchman, had for a year taken no nourishment but orange juice. For a fortnight, to prove that "the soul is above...
...caricature-foil for his heroine, Madeline Neroni. Made-line (Ina Claire), with her father who is in the Church and her brother, who is in embroidery, comes home from Italy and an unhappy marriage. Immediately bored with Barchester, she invents a limp, steals a stuffy clergyman from a stuffy blonde, acts like a younger, cuter Sanger child and, in a magnificently anticlimactic scene, puts her foolish enemies to shame. Along with all this goes a little pleasant dialog, a little minor plotting, a great deal of patronizing archness on the part of the playwright and his actors...