Word: lorded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Over a hundred people were turned away from Appleton Chapel yesterday morning when the Right Reverend Arthur Foley Winnington - Ingram preached at the 11 o'clock service. The chapel was manifestly too small to accommodate the congregation which assembled to hear the Lord Bishop of London's challenge to those who find a conflict between scientific truth and Christianity...
...asked him, Bishop Ingram stated that the one which had interested him the most was that of a man who asked why, if Christianity was convincing, the possessors of it lacked contentment. To this he replied that a Christian should desire incessant activity rather than seek smug contentment. The Lord Bishop's personality, which thus permeated his entire sermon, held the congregation's interest quite as much as his theme...
Last Friday night the Reverend Lord Bishop met 200 undergraduates at a reception given in his honor by the St. Paul's Society at the Phillips Brooks House. In a brief address, the Bishop outlined his reasons for professing Christianity, and also told of some of his experiences, while working with college men in England...
...judge Mr. Bennett's latest novel by his own literary standards were an act of tolerance which would demand the suppression of fervid personal reaction on the part of the critics as well as an intimate knowledge of Mr. Bennetts psychology. Assuming, then, that "Lord Raingo" is all it is intended to be, the reader's disappointment mounts through nearly 400 pages from mild distaste to a peak of pure chagrin and positive depression...
...Bennett's medium is not the X-ray, which penetrates its subject and discoveds unguessed-at causes, nor is it the telescope, which brings out the concomitant phenomena of an object, relegating that object to its proper environment. He depends solely upon the misroscope for his effect. "Lord Raingo" is a meticulous examination of multitudinous minutiae, and little more than that. The Bennett of old was wont to sport with his realistic characers by plunging them into romantic situations, as in "The Grand Babylon Hotel," or "Buried Alive." His latest effort, however, deals with a prosy old codger who maunders...