Word: cyril
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Field Marshal Sir Cyril John Deverell, 72, hard-bitten onetime chief of the British Imperial General Staff, outstanding tactician of World War I, a great believer in mechanized, mobile warfare; in Lymington, Hants, England...
...Remember. In Pittsburgh, St. Cyril's parish celebrated the final payment on a mortgage with a cheery party; the document was burned-and so was a tidy little portion of the church...
...Religion [TIME, March 17], your writer discusses the new book by the Very Rev. Martin Cyril D'Arcy, S.J., The Mind and Heart of Love. He refers to "agape (the selfless Christian love for one's neighbor, which Paul called 'charity' . . .)." Of course, St. Paul didn't call it "charity" at all; he spoke Greek and called it "agape...
Suddenly a flickering, ethereal light danced about the venerable head of Rural Dean Cyril A. Wheeler. The back of his snowy surplice had burst into flame from a nearby candle. The dean looked startled, but stood quietly as Leighton's quick-thinking Vicar S. John Forrest hurried over and began beating him on the back with a hymnbook. In a moment the crisis was over. As the solemn Requiem Mass swept sonorously on ("Yet, good Lord, in grace complying, rescue me from fires undying"), Dean Wheeler hurried out to don a new surplice. "I felt unusually warm," he explained...
...Very Rev. Martin Cyril D'Arcy, S.J., has greying, curly hair and burning eyes. He is a philosopher, an esthete, and one of the most important Roman Catholic churchmen in England. As Provincial of the Society of Jesus in England, Father D'Arcy is administrative head of approximately 800 Jesuits...