Word: confessore
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...himself after the shores of England slipped away, "that I may always love and dutifully carry the cross of Christ and walk worthily of the vocation to which I am called." The Jesuits gave Father Gerard other offices to perform, e.g., rector of a house of philosophy at Liege, confessor to the English College at Rome. But he never saw England again...
...court and in his column, Lawyer Lyons said that he would not obey any such order, portentously proclaimed that relations between columnist and tipster are as sacred as the relations between "client and lawyer, physician and patient, confessor and clergyman." (Snapped Lyons' fellow columnist Walter Winchell: "Let him go to jail. It will give me a big laugh...
...modeled his door in very shallow, incised bas-relief to achieve an effect of depth through drawing and flat planes. The large left-hand panel of his door showed such great teacher-saints as John the Baptist, Augustine, Benedict, Ignatius and John Bosco. The right-hand panel included such confessor-and martyr-saints as Francis of Assisi, Dominic and Joan...
...with shrewd and specific suggestions for improving their manuscripts, but he realized that a main function was to prop their drooping egos while they worked. To Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings he wrote, "I can understand your feeling anxious, because a good writer always does, and ought to." Perkins became father confessor, literary adviser, financial agent and friend to his struggling writers. He negotiated with Tom Wolfe's dunning creditors while Wolfe was in Europe, he gentled Sherwood Anderson when Anderson was on his last literary legs, and he reassured a nervous Hemingway who hovered over his shoulder as Perkins read...
Besides keeping up advertising accounts he has long been unofficial trainer, coach and father confessor to the hard-working team of freshman "heelers" who compete every year for the two dozen coveted positions on the News board. He has also seen many a promising but needy heeler drop out because he couldn't hold a part-time job and still work the 10 to 12 hours a day that heeling calls...