Word: episcopalian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Snakes of God. Outside of medicine, Episcopalian Dr. Kelly was such a bluenose that some thought him against "practically everything that is any fun." He opposed liquor, smoking, and drama which emphasized sex, violence or pie-throwing (pie-throwing gave children the wrong notion of humor). He would not hear of prophylactic stations to prevent venereal disease because it was the business of the churches to prevent exposure. He helped to have Baltimore brothels closed. He considered birth control a "certain mechanical meddling with married life which is abhorrent...
...year-old Committee for a Jewish Army, headed by aggressive Journalist Pierre Van Paassen (Days of Our Years, That Day Alone), found more than 1,500 distinguished citizens eager to sign its plea: they ranged from Episcopalian Bishop H. P. Almon Abbott to Sculptor William Zorach. At a dinner in Manhattan last week, about 1,000 of them applauded speeches which demanded immediate formation of the Army-made up of European refugees and Jews of Palestine and the Middle East-and criticized U.S. and British official delay...
...world's sermonizing record is held by the Rev. James Jefferson Davis Hall, 79, a lively, white-goateed, Alabama-born Episcopalian...
...were passed, to the surprise of many a Protestant leader present. One of them smiled, said the gesture was like "serving ham to a Catholic on Friday." Catholics had provided both meal and cigars, so everybody laughed and went right on talking shop-Roman Catholic to Methodist, Jew to Episcopalian, Lutheran to Congregationalist...
...from the studio of a maker of obscene postcards, 2) to the arms of Henry Pu-yi, stooge ruler of Manchukuo, 3) to the arms of Marshal Chang Hsüeh-liang, onetime overlord of Manchuria. 4) to the position of No. 1 cinestar in China, 5) to Episcopalian marriage to wealthy Christian Vintner Eugene Penn of Shanghai...