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...much too High-Church. On these questions the Catholic and Protestant wings of the Church were lined up, more sharply demarcated than they had been in 50 years. Also, the reelection of Bishop James De Wolf Perry of Rhode Island as presiding bishop, regarded not long ago as a fait accompli, was suddenly threatened by a faction which backed Bishop Ernest Milmore Stires of Long Island. Wrote Dr. Alexander Griswold Cummins in The Chronicle (official organ of the Protestant Episcopal Church League, an evangelical organization): "He [Bishop Perry] has been the least picturesque and effective of our Presiding Bishops...
There is one conception that we would like to deflate before we up stakes over the interlude, a conception voiced by De Musset to the effect that "tout aux tavernes est au fait." Broadly, the phrase suggests that anything goes at a public house, or colloquially, an hotel...
...bride." What the Indian Round Table Conference can do is to rehash the Simon Report and another made last week by Viceroy Lord Irwin (see col. 3), write its own report, possibly agree on a draft text for a new Indian Constitution, finally present all this as a fait accompli to the Indian National Congress, Gandhi & Friends...
...recent prowess in venery, then seeing a copy of Verlaine's poems Maugham was carrying, seized it and read a favorite. "And as he read his voice broke and tears came into his eyes and ran down his face. 'Ah,' he said, 'ça me fait pleurer comme un veau.' ('Ah, that makes me cry like a calf...
...America disliked the Chamberlain method because it had the appearance of England and France presenting her with a fait accompli. When the present conference opened, exactly the same suspicion oppressed France. The result has been quite fatal. The conference has been a tragedy of mismanagement...