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...dropped last week into Philadelphia and then bounced over to Boston, and subsequently returned to Mars, there would have been one question to which he could have made no sane answer to inquisitive friends and relatives: " What is the Protestant Episcopal Church in the U.S.?" In Philadelphia, passing through Locust Street, he would have seen a pageant of dressed-up priests-a crucifix, bearing a shining cross of gold, torchbearers in red cassocks and cottas, priests in serried ranks followed by monks of the Order of the Holy Cross and the Cowley Fathers. To Mass- High Mass- they went...
...Morgan: "Some time ago Mrs. Morgan and I visited the Thistle Chapel in the Cathedral of St. Giles, Edinburgh. We were so impressed by the art of the woodcarver, Sir Robert S. Lorimer, that we asked him to do the woodwork for our little church, St. John's, near Locust Valley, L. I. This Church has seen many pretty ceremonier. While the new woodwork is being installed services are being held in a garage on the estate of William D. Guthrie...
Lord Birkenhead: "Weekending at Locust Valley, L.I., the guest of Paul D. Crayath (attorney), I played golf at Piping Rock with Percy R. Pyne, II, Harold S. Vanderbilt and another man. I wore a baby blue sweater and long dark trousers and smoked a fat cigar. At the ninth hole rain overtook...
Although air raids in the past have proved less harmful than the locust plague proved to the Egyptians; air--and not water or land--will in all probability be the battleground of the future. And with this in mind, John Bull has suggested a disarmament move which may be of greater importance in the keeping of the peace than both the Washington and Hague conferences together...
...species is peculiarly worthy of study as a type of pure freak, which occurs like the seven-year locust, at regular intervals. History reports it appeared before as a hybrid insect, related to the late frivolous sheet, "The Harvard Magazine", or the "Mag". There are other instances with which it is needless to irk the student (or if there are not, the art of pseudology is at fault...