Word: freeman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...long ago chosen as the day Church & State would meet for the first time in the Cathedral choir and sanctuary. There would be Holy Communion, celebrated by the Cathedral's Dean George Carl Fitch Bratenahl, and a sermon, broadcast to the U. S. by stocky Rt. Rev. James Edward Freeman, Bishop of Washington. There would be a procession in which would march representatives of other sects and Episcopal Bishops Darst of East Carolina, Abbott of Lexington, Ky., Jett of Southwestern Virginia, Cook of Delaware, Rhinelander (retired) of Pennsylvania. Most Rev. James De Wolf Perry, Presiding Bishop of the Church...
...home was at 7 Scott street. He is survived by his wife, who was Mabel Gray Freeman, of Springfield, whom he married June 8, 1887; two daughters, Miss Katherine Thaxter and Mrs. Eliot Hubbard, Jr. (Elizabeth F. Thaxter), and a son, Edmund L. Thaxter...
...educated Egyptian of the Empire Period (1600-1200 B.C.). Mark (1) if he would have agreed with the proposition; (2) if he would have disagreed; (3) if he would have debated the proposition without necessarily agreeing or disagreeing; (4) if he would have found it meaningless: Murder of a freeman is wrong; the earth moves around the sun; all property holders must pay taxes to the government; naturalism is a possible objective in sculpture; comedy is a superior form of drama to tragedy...
...Author. Critic Van Wyck Brooks, born in Plainfield, N. J. in 1886, since his graduation from Harvard has been associated with the Doubleday, Page and Century publishing houses; has associate-edited The Freeman and the first American Caravan. Ill health forced him to desert the Caravan. He lives with his wife and two sons in Westport, Conn. Generally conceded one of America's few serious critics, Critic Brooks takes as the theme of all his work the peculiar opportunities and disabilities of U. S. literati. Of his study of Emerson, he says: "What I wished to convey was a convincing...
Connecticut's Congressman Richard Patrick Freeman got up from a sick bed to hobble down the aisle of the House last week and sign a petition to bring from the Judiciary Committee to the House floor a Wet proposal to modify the 18th Amendment. But the 145 signatures necessary to put the petition into parliamentary action were still incomplete as the document lay for the fifth day on the Speaker's desk...