Word: patriarch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...inland capital of Nicosia, chattering Greeks (who never seem to go to bed) worked themselves up to riot. Some were inflamed by Orthodox priests who told of a "fiery cross" raised against British rule on the heights of Limassol two nights before. According to the priests, the Orthodox Patriarch of Cyprus (who jealously guards his 1,000-year-old right to sign his name in red ink) had proclaimed the end of British rule and the union of Cyprus with Greece "because the people will...
That Birth Control report enraged the Patriarch of the Northwest, Dr. Mark Allison Matthews of Seattle. Dr. Matthews is lawyer as well as preacher. As soon as he was called to Seattle (1902) he began cleaning up that wicked stopover towards the Klondike goldfields. He disrupted the brothels in the valleys and smashed the gambling dens on the hills. He brought the regenerate to God, and now with a congregation of 7,886 and with 27 branch Sunday Schools has the largest Presbyterian Church in the world on his hands. He is a tall, slender, white-haired Lion of Judah...
...Murphy. Patriarch Patrick Murphy heard that his son in America was running for mayor of his town. Mr. Murphy had done a good deal of campaigning himself, had once shaken the hand of the great Parnell, so he sent a letter to his son "marked Impahrtent on one side and Errgent on the other" and left the old sod to electioneer for his offspring. His son's wife was not happy to welcome the old man. She had social aspirations, had changed the family name to Murfree when they moved out of the Patch...
...almost any evening in the inn at Marden Fee, and it is the chorus of talk, not the incidental pastoral melodrama you will remember from Author Bullett's book. The story opens in prehistoric England, in the "squat" (hut-settlement) of Koor. Koor, hitherto invincible patriarch, is aging, and the young hunters are beginning to mutter to each other. Soon the inevitable happens. The tale suddenly skips to 1750; Koor's squat is now the drowsy village of Marden Fee, its people outwardly a placid yokelry. But in many of them still runs the blood of Koor. When...
...observed: "Who would be so unkind as to interrupt the bubbling joy of the author of Elmer Gantry in receiving the Nobel Prize?" Prizeman Lewis had hoped that Dr. van Dyke would not "demand the landing of U. S. Marines at Stockholm to protect American literary rights." Princeton's patriarch rejoined: "Why send the marines to Stockholm to interfere with the Babbitt? Just tell it to them...