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Word: peafowl (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last Sunday Dr. Guthrie bade St. Marks good-by with a tour of its grounds, which date from 1660, when Peter Stuyvesant worshipped there, later to be buried in the churchyard, in which Rector Guthrie still later kept a pair of peafowl. Two Sundays ago in his sermon Dr. Guthrie paid his respects to Bishop William Thomas Manning with whom he had often clashed-"with him came the bigness of head that goes with new office"-and to the Episcopal Church into which he was born: "I don't know any church I could stand as well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: O Beautiful | 12/13/1937 | See Source »

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