Word: elliott
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week New York's thin-lipped, aging Bishop William Thomas Manning aimed an episcopal thunderbolt at un wary St. James' and its new vestryman-elect. In an action that he admitted was "unusual" he decreed that thrice-married Elliott "is not in good standing with the Church and therefore is not eligible for the office of vestryman and cannot serve in that capacity." Canon law forbids remarriage of di vorced persons except in case of infidelity...
James' met at a Poughkeepsie hotel to fill three vacancies. For one they chose a Roosevelt, the late President's second son, Elliott...
...innocent party" may remarry, but only with the approval of his bishop. Elliott's second and third marriages (to Ruth Googins in 1933 and Actress Faye Emerson in 1944) were performed without episcopal sanction, the first by a retired Congregational minister, the second by a Methodist pastor in a glassed-in observation station at Grand Canyon, Ariz...
...been 30 years. Driving through the jack-pine country of northern Wisconsin on his calls, Doc MacKinnon reflected: it had seemed much shorter than that. In the long country-doctor days and broken nights of George Elliott MacKinnon, now 60, he had brought hundreds -thousands-of children into life. Many a Finnish logger had come to his office in little (pop. 452) Prentice, Wis. to be patched up after a knife fight. There had been fevers, croups, contagions, the flu epidemic of 1919, when Doc was out on the drifted roads for eight subzero days & nights, .with a steaming horse...
...emphasis this term is on the social sciences of History, Government and economics, Dean Kennedy's report showed. Except for English Aa, which is compulsory for 362 Freshmen, the most popular elective course in the Yard is Government 1a. Professor Elliott's in Political Theory was elected...