Word: creightons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Creighton...
...Right Reverend Arthur Foley Winnington Ingram took two rooms in the palace for himself. The rest he turned over to the servants. Every Saturday afternoon he gave a party, but instead of the Duchesses and financiers' widows who had so often graced the board of his predecessor, Bishop Creighton, the guests at Bishop Ingram's parties were working-girls and bargees. During the War he held scores of services on the battlefront. The press has called him, at various times, the Omnibus Bishop, the King's First Bishop, the Breezy Bishop, the Bishop of the Slums. Punch...
...Warfield Hobbs, chief publicity secretary of the Episcopal Board of Missions, remarked to Manhattan newsgatherers: "We are adhering strictly to the Mexican law. . . . As (Episcopal) Bishop Frank W. Creighton said shortly after his arrival in Mexico, 'Our Mission has nothing to do with diplomacy, industry or politics. . . . Mexico knows what is best for Mexico...
...CREIGHTON...
...When the Creighton family get to Mexico City they will find a civilization quite other than that they knew in Brooklyn. They will find, it is true, a superficial resemblance in the clattering street cars and the well-paved streets. But they will find far wider distinctions between the social classes. Among the "foreigners," with whom they will associate they will find a ready, kindly, courteous welcome, a welcome tempered nevertheless at first by a quiet scrutiny, for the foreign colony of the city, perforce thrown into rather close communion, always wonders how affably the newcomer will...