Word: low
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Clothes. "One day he was taking a swim in the Rappahannock and two girls of low degree ran off with his clothes...
...Protestant Episcopal Church, some take a high road and some take a low road, each group expecting to be in heaven before the other. The low-roaders hold only for the two sacraments, baptism and communion, finding "not a shred of evidence" for the high-roaders' belief that Christ is to be reached through five more sacraments-confession and absolution of sins, confirmation, extreme unction, holy orders, matrimony. Neither group acknowledges the ghostly authority of any earthly pope; together they elect a bishop to preside over one and all, and formally their Church is one church, militant...
Nevertheless, the party rift is a wide one, and five sacraments deep. When the presiding bishop, presumably a neutral, declared his intention of attending a congress of high-roaders, the low-road Episcopal press became filled with reverent indignation. When the bishop, the Right Reverend John Gardner Murray, refused to change his mind and did attend the congress, last week in Milwaukee, this indignation continued, high-road Episcopalians being filled with a corresponding amount of reverent elation...
Mademoiselle Lenglen spoke English fluently in a low voice with just a trace of Parisian accent. Her manner was quite charming. The reporter forgot in his admiration to ask just how she got that straight back-hand drive and gabbled instead a trite question about professional tennis...
...spiteful robbery and act of vandalism" declared Arthur J. Clement, proprietor of the shop when questioned yesterday, or perhaps it wasn't. Maybe the supplies just ran low at some party and the boys dropped over for a little provender. They took five Dunhill pipes, a mecrschaum, a siphon, and a Dunhill lady lighter, or rather a lighter made by Dunhill for ladies. Much as I would like to believe in the latter as an explanation, I must confess to a fear that this is but another spiteful attack by some sinister and hidden enemy...