Word: episcopari
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...nominated I will not accept; if elected I will not serve," wrote General William Tecumseh Sherman to the Republican convention of 1884, in the most emphatic, most widely quoted (and misquoted)* nolo episcopari on record. Last week Minnesota's outspoken Harold Stassen as emphatically announced his determination to win the Republican nomination in 1948. The formal Stassen bid, 18 months before convention time, was as unparalleled as General Sherman's brusque withdrawal...
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...jobs in or beyond the Episcopal Church" which has often proved a stepping-stone to the top-ranking bishopric of New York). St. Paul's is the oldest and biggest of the haughty Episcopal preparatory schools, and its headmastership always ranked high, but Dr. Drury's nolo episcopari enormously increased the prestige of the job. When stern, sonorous Dr. Drury died last February, S. P. S. trustees searched the Church for a man capable of filling Dr. Drury's shoes. Meanwhile, quiet Vice-Rector Crocker Kittredge, son of Harvard's famed Professor George Lyman ("Kitty...
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