Word: cornering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...corner of 13th and Irving Streets, Washington, D. C., stands a small meeting house of light buff brick with concrete steps and opaque glass windows. By combining Sunday-school room with auditorium, the church will seat 400. It is the Irving Street Friends Orthodox Church. At present there is no "experienced speaker*," but one will be found by March 10, 1929. Beginning on Sunday, and for at least four years after, the President of the U. S. will be numbered among its congregation...
Spent is the age when rearing spires could dominate a city. Coming up the New York harbor you see many a Wall Street office building, but the towers of Trinity and St. Paul's are visible only after you turn the corner into lower Broadway. If any Gothic soars into the morning, it commemorates not God but the Woolworth five-and-ten cent stores...
Vested in stole and surplice, Rector Randolph Ray stepped from the quiet of his sacristy into the flower-decorated chancel at the Little Church Around the Corner* last week, to preside at the unveiling of the fifth stained glass window there in memory of famed actors. This time it was to commemorate John Drew,† whose mother had a pew at the Church before...
...surprise to Rector Ray's congregation. Since the church was founded by Dr. George Hendrick Houghton it has been a tradition that people come to services there from all walks of life, all races and creeds. Rector Ray is the third rector at the Little Church Around the Corner in all the 80 years of its existence, his immediate predecessor having been Dr. George Clarke Houghton, nephew of the founder. The custom at the Little Church Around the Corner is for the actual rector to name his successor. So knowing Rector Ray's interest in theatrical people...
Although the Little Church Around the Corner could be hidden behind the leaping spires of St. Patrick's Cathedral on Fifth Avenue, or tucked into the crypt of Bishop Manning's Protestant Episcopal Cathedral of St. John the Divine, it is the most famed church in Manhattan...