Word: patriarchalism
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...life and war prove even worse than his gloomy forebodings. The war turns his father from a strong patriarch to a cowardly, deceitful, heartbroken old man. Gregor's steady mother expires in a moving death scene; his unloved wife, sick with sorrow over Gregor's infidelity, dies of an abortion; his brother Piotra is shot in cold blood by his Red cousin Mishka; his loose sister-in-law Daria, eaten by venereal disease, drowns herself in the Don; his sister Dunia marries Mishka, who becomes one of those insufferably coldhearted bullies who helped keep together-and poison...
...Church swung into action. Bishop Nicholai of Belgrade preached a sermon against capitulation. Patriarch Gavrilo Dozitch of the Serbian Orthodox Church went to the White Palace to warn Prince Paul against giving the Germans power over the Church. Bishop Valerian Pribichevitch, brother of the late great Patriot Svetozar Pribichevitch, telegraphed his resignation to the Regent; it would become effective when Yugoslavia signed with Germany...
...Lydia's face and name could not keep the descendants at peace. Upon the death of President Charles Pinkham, Aroline made it clear that the Goves would now run the medicine show. Finding himself patriarch of the Pinkham branch while but a sophomore at Brown, Arthur Pinkham, son of Charles, was hopping...
Birthdays. William II, onetime German Emperor, his 82nd, in excellent health but still planted at Doom, Holland. Said he: "Old trees cannot be transplanted." Frank Orren Lowden, onetime (1917-21) Governor of Illinois and G. O. Patriarch, his 80th, in Oregon, Ill. Said he: "I think we are becoming altogether too pessimistic. I look forward with faith and hope...
...singing God of Our Fathers as a long, brilliant procession streamed into the Kansas City Municipal Auditorium's vast red, white & blue arena. In the army marched bishops from five continents, some in white rochets, some in crimson convocation robes; His Beatitude Eshai Mar Shimun XXIII, the bearded Patriarch of Assyria, wearing a gorgeous golden cope; Canada's Primate, the Most Rev. Derwyn Trevor Owen, Archbishop of Toronto; and at procession's end the U. S. Presiding Bishop, the Right Rev. Henry St. George Tucker of Virginia. Beside the high altar, in the shadow of its towering...