Word: clergyman
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...windy clergyman, Babbitt orator and honest man, is married to the wistfully wise, perilously attractive Candida. The poet Marchbanks, weakling in body but with a warrior mind, persuades the windy one he is not worthy of his wife. He speaks of love. The windy one bids the wife choose. She takes the honest Babbitt, the man strong before the world; the man least able to bear loneliness. The pliant poet is the hero of the whole...
...general subject of the course, which consists of six lectures and is given annually by some eminent clergyman, a last year. "The Life of Christ". This evening Bishop Headlam will discuss "The Teaching of Jesus...
...addition to the memorials of John Harvard which have been placed in one of the exhibition cases in the Treasure Room for exhibition today on the 317th anniversary of the birth of the famous New England clergyman, several other interesting exhibits have been prepared...
...museum, the clergyman remarks: "It is not certain that there has been much change in our intellectual and moral attainments since pithecanthropus dropped the first half of his name...
Having business in Westminster, the clergyman takes a taxi. The lions of Trafalgar Square jolt by: "Like other ideals, patriotism varies from a noble devotion to a moral lunacy." Looms the House of Parliament: "The corruption of democracies proceeds directly from the fact that one class imposes the taxes and another class pays them. . . . Democracy is likely to perish through national bankruptcy. . . . Democracy means a victory of sentiment over reason." Glints Buckingham Palace: "When Christ said 'Blessed are the meek for they shall inherit the Earth,' He was thinking of the British Empire." At last the Abbey...