Word: clerics
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...venerable are the: Alb, which is a white linen robe, once form-fitting (contracted from the flowing garment of Biblical times in order to give greater facility in handling dripping baptised persons), but recently, in the hours of the church, enlarged again. It reaches the ankles. Although a poor cleric (such as the brother of the Bishop of London) would not have embroidery on his simple alb, the Bishop's has bespangled wristlets and he could have ornaments on the lower hem if he cared to have them. A Roman Catholic bishop wears an alb, as does...
Tuesday and Wednesday were similarly days of prayer and speech. On the last day of this Congress religious fervor was to be at its highest. Every cleric not incapacitated or ordered elsewhere was to go to the Seminary of St. Mary of the Lake. Hundreds of thousands of laymen were to follow by train and motor car. The greatest religious spectacle ever produced in the U. S. was to be consummated...
...Reisner is certainly a good business man. If he ever gets tired of the Temple, there's many a good banking house would be glad to get him." The cleric, thus referred to, smiled modestly. Then the police band struck...
...planes and curves," also heroic -10 or 12 ft. high. It was exhibited in the Leicester Galleries, London, and for weeks people gathered in front of it and roared with laughter. In 1920, at the same galleries, he exhibited a statue called The Risen Christ. A well-known British cleric exclaimed: "I call it positively wicked and insulting to perpetrate such a travesty." Said Mr. Epstein: "The figure I have produced appeals to me as one of infinite pity, looking upon the world of sorrow with deep compassion." It had a pug nose, pigeon toes, thick lips...
...Chicago cleric-"The world will never be redeemed by the voice only. ... In the newspaper, the coming generation will find, when Christianity is applied to the newspaper, a great apostle of Christianity. . . . The pulpit and the written word-the press-are twins...