Word: clericalization
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While Premier Bennett anguished and Premier Aberhart communed at Detroit's Shrine of the Little Flower, an extremely tall, imposing British cleric in black gaiters and frock coat landed in Manhattan on his way to Alberta. As newshawks swarmed around him the very Rev. Hewlett Johnson, Dean of Canterbury, observed: "Newspapermen? Ah yes. Terrible people! You aren't usually so eager for a sermon. Well, this is my chance...
...brought her knitting and completed only three stitches. Clifton Webb called it "heart-breaking" and Jack Benny was assured "this was serious business." Lynn Fontanne thought Hauptmann a handsome young man, while the former Mrs. Jack Dempsey was sorry for him whether he was "guilty or not." Hence, whatever Cleric Burns, the interrupter on Tuesday, tried to say, seemed quite immaterial...
Through the great West Door and up the long aisle of London's vast St. Paul's Cathedral one day last week slowly marched a procession which included a portly little man, young-looking despite his grey locks. To him, at the altar, a cleric said: "I, Sidney Arthur Alexander, senior canon, do induct you, Very Reverend Walter Robert Matthews, lawfully appointed dean of this church. The Lord keep your coming in and going out, now and forever...
...classics, before they embark upon three years of teaching, four of theology and one of ascetic theology. Rev. Aloysius Henry Rohde, assistant to the Jesuit provincial in Chicago, will be the school's temporary rector until a full one is appointed by that most formidable cleric, the Superior General or "Black Pope," Wlodomir Ledochowski in Rome. The 80 students who will study under eight priests at West Baden College will live in ordinary Jesuit routine - up at 5 a. m., to bed at 9 p. m., plenty of work, prayers, meditation. They may well be appalled in contemplating...
...staunch Dry who asserts he became tipsy on beer at 14. Dr. Reisner toured Manhattan speakeasies during Prohibition, described his experiences in full to the Press. But no dour cleric is he, for he heartily aims to amuse, soothe and edify his parishioners, especially at Sunday night services. Every summer Dr. Reisner holds a snow service, with scrapings from an ice plant. He has held whistling services, given away apples, oranges and bread in literal demonstration of scriptural tenets. Other Broadway Temple entertainment includes newsreels, secular singers, bell-ringers, trumpeters and Mr. & Mrs. Vanderbilt Shrump, bird imitators. Before a mirror...