Word: pastoralized
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...dusty country road near Kempen in the British zone (the story went), a wasted woman struggled under a heavy rucksack toward the Ruhr. Pastor X stopped her, guessed what she was carrying, said: "You have been lucky to find so many potatoes, my good woman. Many visitors come to our district from the Ruhr and return empty-handed...
Indignant, the pastor took the name and address of the greedy farmer. Next Sunday he told his congregation that a farmer in his parish had taken a gold wedding ring from the mother of five hungry children for 60 lbs. of potatoes, denounced the action as a disgrace. If the guilty man did not bring him the ring, said the pastor, he would announce his name from the pulpit the following Sunday...
Before Sunday came, the pastor had received eight gold wedding rings...
...round. White-maned Frank Lloyd Wright's unconventional plan for a new Unitarian church in Madison, Wis. was enthusiastically described last week by the pastor of Madison's First Unitarian Society. Unitarian Wright's idea of a " 'unit'arian" church involved combining steeple, auditorium and parish house into a unit under one roof (which would serve as "steeple"). The result looked like half a pyramid, vertically sliced; some people might have to be told that it was a church...
...Pastor to Painter. As his worshipers knew him, Fuseli was "a little white-headed lion-faced man in an old flannel dressing gown tied round his waist with a piece of rope." Brought up to be a Lutheran pastor, he left Zurich soon after his first sermon, on the text: "What will this babbler say?" The babbler had decided that there was a better future in painting. "I do not wish to build a cottage," he wrote in a friend's album, "but to erect a pyramid...