Word: deaconal
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Soon he decided that a legal career had its limitations, too. Under the canons of Washington Cathedral, Pike began studying for the ministry. He was ordained a deacon in 1944; two years later he became a priest. For the last two years, he has been Episcopal chaplain at Columbia University. Pike's main job there: building up the almost nonexistent religion department. In two years, he and Religion Professor Ursula (Mrs. Reinhold) Niebuhr of Barnard College have established a joint Columbia-Barnard religion curriculum of 38 courses and 500 students...
...others are there, too--Albert the Alligator, Porky, who "don't like anybody 'cept one crittur whom I dislikes less than most," Churchy la Femme, Howlin' Owl, Deacon Mushrat, the Rackety Coon Chile, and the rest of the too-human animals that people the South's fairest swamplands...
This word game Kelly plays is one of the most sparking points in the strip. He finds all the oddities of the English language and puns with them until he has formed a new language for his creature creations. From Deacon Mushrat, who speaks in Old English script to pup dog who pontificates on poltergeist, each varmint adds his own grammar...
...Curtiss scored two of the Kirkland tallies on penalty kicks. The third Deacon tally was scored by a Winthrop man who accidentally headed the ball into his own goal...
Tailback Ralph Maffel and wingback Chick Nelson were the other leading contributors to Kirkland's victory. Maffel opened the game with a brilliant 30-yard run and was indispensable as a linebacker when his team was on the defense. Solid defense kept the Deacon attack bottled up all afternoon...