Word: forbeses
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Divorced. James Vincent Sheean, 46, best-selling journalistic bird of passage (Personal History, Not Peace But A Sword) ; by beauteous Diana Forbes-Robertson Sheean, 31, youngest daughter of oldtime actor Sir Johnston Forbes-Robertson; after ten years of marriage, two daughters; in Reno.
"The modern American Church school is the funniest thing in the land-or it would be if it were not the saddest . . . [it] is a tragic fiasco." Thus the late Bishop Fiske (Episcopalian) of Central New York once wrote to The Rev. Kenneth R. Forbes.
Last week the Rev. Mr. Forbes, onetime chaplain of Philadelphia's City Mission, used the Bishop's words as ammunition in taking a few pot shots at those "pundits in religious education" who for 25 years "like an old phonograph record" have been expressing "great concern" over the...
Said Forbes, "The parish clergy . , . have got to assume the duty [of teaching children] . . . and cease delegating it to others."
Two masters of the art of umpire-baiting met in Pittsburgh last week. As they and their hardy apprentices tangled with two baitable Men in Blue, the sound & fury easily cleared the fences of Forbes Field.