Word: faction
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York City had but one Presbyterian church, the First, in Wall Street. Its congregation quarreled, among other things, over the new-fangled hymns of Isaac Watts. So the anti-Watts faction set up their own church in Cedar Street. Successively locating in Duane Street and lower Fifth Avenue, the congregation in 1875 built a big, brownstone Gothic church which still stands at Fifth Avenue and 55th Street among clubs, hotels and big shops. Associated at one time or another with such old New York names as Auchincloss, Sloane, Leeds, Agnew, Gracie, Varick and Aspinwall, the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church...
Observers noticed that the house members were grimly divided into two factions. Luncheon conversation became strained. A second notice appeared, but the tension was increased rather than eased. The point of issue, it seems, was the pronunciation of the professor's name. There was a determined faction claiming "Shaipely" to be correct, and a no less adamant group in favor of "Shapply." Asking anyone who actually knew was against the rules, and astronomy concentrators were religiously shunned...
...themselves dropped in on a meeting run by the busy, vocal "Social Frontier" professors who come chiefly from Teachers' College, Columbia. This faction, always a power in N. E. A. conventions, had gone to Atlantic City determined to jolt the superintendents out of their customary conservatism. They were holding forth in the Rose Room of the Traymore Hotel...
...into ecstasies over its allegory of a bishop's illegitimate daughter (played by Lillian Gish) who becomes a prostitute and dies in a raffish poet's arms unshriven by the Church. Since the bishop's creed was left scrupulously unspecified by Playwright O'Casey, no faction of the New York clergy felt impelled to lead an assault on the drama's heresies. But as soon as he heard that Within the Gates had taken to the road, was due in Boston this week, the Rev. Russell M. Sullivan, S. J., of the Boston College Council...
...that an unspecified foreign consul† gave Nicolaev 5,000 rubles and offered to put him in touch with Great Red Exile Leon Trotsky. "From Capitalistic darkness," editorialized the official newsorgan Pravda, "comes the stench which Kirov's murderers breathed!" According to Pravda, the leaders of the Trotsky faction accused in the case are "prostituted scoundrels, arrant blackguards, cowards, traitors, bankrupt politicians, deserters, outcasts of the human race and thrice accursed...