Word: clergyman
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...worthy master, under whose nose it all takes place. When they think that they have cost him his job, they seek to make amends by trying to marry him off to their aunt, but he manages to cling gracefully to celibacy, and winds up in the place of the clergyman, as the new headmaster...
...cities which occasionally celebrate the memories of their pioneers, not many dedicate a day every year to a clergyman, and only one can devote ceremonies to a Roman Catholic priest who was a Congressman. To Detroit, last week brought Gabriel Richard Day, the lyoth anniversary of the birth of a Catholic who helped build the city. Under the chairmanship of Catholic Archbishop Edward Mooney, Michigan's Catholic Governor Frank Murphy and Dr. Joseph Anderson Vance of Detroit's First Presbyterian Church, the day was celebrated with high mass, a parade, a banquet, a speech by onetime Governor Chase...
...Executive Secretary Spofford told reporters that the General Convention had stalled a Cincinnati drugstore strike: "The picket line was effective until this convention arrived, but the girls tell me the church people go right through, particularly the clergy. Lay people see a bishop or a clergyman go in, think it's all right and follow...
...rules his flocks with liberality, as contrasted with most African Methodist bishops, who generally disapprove of dancing and fun-making. But he is a disciplinarian, was quick last week to suspend the presiding elder of his Philadelphia district when he learned that that black Methodist had brawled with another clergyman, shouting "I'm the fighting cock of the Main Line, and everybody knows it." Said Bishop Sims in dealing with the offender: "I never kill a man but when one commits suicide I bury...
...Soviet-to-California-via-the-North-Pole flights of the Russians "absolutely confirm" the theory that the earth is flat, said eccentric Wilbur Glen Voliva, Zion City, Ill. clergyman. He was unprepared to concede that they could have flown over the South Pole had they wished. "There is no South Pole," said Wilbur Glen Voliva...