Word: episcopalian
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...bigoted, self-centered, stern old Puritan" is said to be confirmed by the fact that in later life "he cut off his tence, the artist, Donald Kirby, is "synthesizing" his features from available scraps of information regarding his only daughter without a penny because she had married an Episcopalian...
Born and half-bred an Episcopalian (he taught Sunday School, went to church every day in Lent), Upton Sinclair soon graduated into a more intense life as a puritan in Greenwich Village. Readers accustomed to his calves-foot-jelly style may raise an eyebrow when he says that he still has the cadences of the New Testament and the prayer-book running through his head, judges his own sentences by that echo. An optimist from the word go - enemies say he even jumped the gun - Author Sinclair early joined battle with his life-long foe, Determinism. Xo philosopher nor theologian...
Author Cozzens does not make the usual formal disclaimer: that all his characters are fictitious. Even if he had, many an Episcopalian reader would have recognized at least two likenesses-Bishop William T. Manning, onetime Father Harvey Officer-may think they see in his hero a similarity to the late Rev. Ralph Pomeroy...
...Federal District Judge William Caldwell Coleman, who had pronounced the Act unconstitutional "in its entirety" (TIME, Nov. 18). They also had the opinion of a Philadelphia law firm and of a Philadelphia lawyer, onetime (1922-27) U. S. Senator George Wharton Pepper. A stanch Republican, a devout Episcopalian whose portly figure is as familiar in Philadelphia as the facade of Independence Hall, Lawyer Pepper set a U. S. record for per-vote campaign expenditures when he ran unsuccessfully for re-election in 1926 ($2.42 per Bepper ballot...
...latter, a devout Episcopalian, greeted Bishop Ryan as one born Midwesterner to another, said: "The land which you left to come East 14 years ago has changed considerably in those years. We need pioneers. To enter upon this new world calls for an adventuresome spirit, for dauntless courage. The world of which I am speaking is just finding itself. Torn by doubts and uncertainty, by unemployment and financial disaster, it is awakening to the fact that there is still a God in the heavens. . . . May your Episcopate succeed in fanning this tiny spark of divine ambition in the hearts...