Word: clergyman
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...were a child in a London County Council school and you were asked: " My next door neighbor has had three visitors: first, a doctor called, then a lawyer, and then a clergyman. What do you think has been happening there ? " you would run considerable risk by replying that your neighbor was coming down in the world, or that she was having people to dinner. But if you replied that there had probably been a death you might display normal intelligence for the age of 13. Or you might...
...Frank Watson Dyson, has informed the College Observatory by cablegram of the discovery of a nova, or new star, on May 8 by Anderson. The initials of the discoverer are not given in the cablegram, but it is presumed that he is the Rev. T. D. Anderson, an English clergyman and amateur astronomer. The new star was situated in the constellation Cygnus, and was of the fifth magnitude, or in other words just about bright enough to be seen with the naked eye under very favorable conditions. The cablegram was relayed to the University by the Bureau of Astronomical Telegrams...
...Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung, Hugo Stinnes' quasi-reactionary organ: " The performance was good enough for well-meaning people. The Kaiser looked like an infantry captain and Bismarck like an old clergyman. His two sons, Herbert and Bill, might have passed for shabby underlings employed in a lawyer's office, but never as the Counts they were...
Will Rogers: " At the annual dinner of the Society of Arts and Sciences in Manhattan I was unanimously hailed as the phenomenal humorist of the day. The editors of Who's Who mention three William Rogers-a cartoonist, a manufacturer, a clergyman. They must have forgotten the phenomenal humorist...
John Roach Straton is a well known clergyman and writer of the Calvary Baptist Church, New York City. Among his best known writings are "The Salvation of Society", and "The Menace of Immorality in Church and State...