Word: clerical
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...skill that renders the character quite lovable. John Emery has taken over Brian Aherne's part as the swaggering very English Earl of Warwick and does it quite as well as did the estimable Mr. Aherne. Eduardo Ciannelli as the Bishop of Beauvais, Charles Waldron as the senior French cleric, and George Courloris as the irascible aide to Warwick all turn in admirable performances...
This speech was read to the Conference by Senior Bishop Edwin Holt Hughes, 69, of Washington, a suave, well-dressed cleric who has a rich wife and gets good fees for lectures and sermons. Declared Keynoter Hughes: "Property, whether among ministers or merchants, is not proof of iniquity. In many individual cases the profit motive has been joined by the benevolent motive, as multiplied evidences would show...
...made peculiarly her own, Bori said her goodby. First she was Violetta in La Traviata, sacrificing her happiness on the plea of the elder Germont who was Tibbett bewigged. At the end she was graceful Manon, beguiling Tenor Richard Crooks until he gave up all thought of becoming a cleric. With what appeared to be the final curtain the audience was on its feet wildly cheering. But there was more to come. Stage had been set for the garden scene in Traviata. Flowers were everywhere. While members of the company stood by respectfully, Bori received rich tributes. In behalf...
...priest to Chicago to minister to 150 Chaldean Rite Catholic families, refugees from Assyria and Mesopotamia and the largest group of their countrymen in the U. S.? In Mosul, Iraq the white-bearded Patriarch assented, chose his black-bearded onetime Vicar General, Rev. Francis Thomay. That 51-year-old cleric shaved off his whiskers, removed his shiny black pillbox hat, arrived in Manhattan last August wearing the dark mufti of a priest. In Chicago last week Father Thomay was laying plans to build the first Chaldean Rite church...
...back to England where she is supposed to marry someone. G-men arrest a bishop because they have heard that Charles Ruggles, Public Enemy No. 13, who is dissatisfied with his number and waiting for "the new ranking to come out," is traveling aboard the same ship as a cleric. Ruggles makes himself useful stealing clothes for Stowaway Crosby but rouses suspicion when he uses his machine gun to win a trapshooting contest. Since the passport Ruggles has loaned Crosby belonged to Public Enemy No. 1, wanted for electrocution, Crosby has to have a beard, which he obtains by clipping...