Word: kirk
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...yard relay race--Won by Andover: De Azevedo, Kirk, Horne, DeWitt. Time...
...late Very Rev. John Marshall Lang, onetime moderator of that "Auld Kirk," had six sons. Cosmo Gordon studied law with a view to entering politics, suddenly changed his mind, entered not his father's church but his King's, rose to be its No.1 prelate. Of his four living brothers, M. (for Marshall) Buchanan Lang, 66, is the only Presbyterian clergyman of the lot. He it was to whom last week the Church of Scotland gave the moderatorship nomination, equivalent to election at the General Assembly next...
...years ago on Long Island, Mrs Lucy F. Kirk, 54, was driving with her son Payton when their automobile collided with one driven by George Cisler The Cisler automobile was damaged. A doctor examined Mrs. Kirk, found her apparently seriously injured. A Christian Scientist, she declined medical attention summoned, instead, a paid healer to pray over her and read from Mary Bakei Eddy's Science & Health. Mrs. Kirk made what looked like a complete recovery but later she said she suffered from headaches, a pain in the nose and tremors of the left hand. She had made good money...
Pondering all this, the jury decided that Mrs. Kirk's pains were unreal, hence had no place in court. Instead of awarding her $10,000, the twelve good men and true ordered her to pay George Cisler $75 for damages to his automobile...
...land there is a one-man Christian Science Committee on Publication, whose duties as laid down by Mrs. Eddy include correcting unfavorable statements about Christian Science in the Press. Last week all the New York Committee (William Wallace Porter) could think of to write the newspapers about the Kirk-Cisler suit was: "The consideration of this entire case . . . will doubtless bring into view the true definition of the term 'reality.' If this is done something worth while will have been accomplished...