Word: pews
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pretty hard boyhood. He wet his pants on his first day at school, and after his First Communion was sick as soon as he got back to his pew. When the little girl around the corner told him that Butch O'Hara had tried to kiss her, Joe said, "Somebody's gonna teach that big dope a lesson." She told Butch. The next time Joe saw Butch, Butch began to beat him up. But something strange happened: another boy got mixed up in the fight and the next Joe heard about it, Butch was in the hospital with...
...help to the South. ¶ James Bryce (1907-13), who was well known in the U.S., before he became Ambassador, for his great book The American Commonwealth. Bryce was widely respected; when he attended the Old Presbyterian Church in Washington he was always escorted to Abraham Lincoln's pew. ¶ Sir Cecil Spring Rice (1913-18), the World War I Ambassador, so supercautious that he dared make only one public speech in his five years in the U.S. ¶ Rufus Isaacs, Lord Reading (1918-19), the fabulous genius of finance and the law who rose from cabin...
...Runyon First and Last, a collection of his earliest and last pieces, there are two mildly amusing Broadway stories and over three dozen sketches written between 1907 and 1915 in Runyon's youthful, pre-formula days. One of them, a hobo story called "The Informal Execution of Soupbone Pew," is a report of a murder told in a bantering tone reminiscent of Ring Lardner. Others are gentle spoofs on his old home town in the West, sketches of Army life in the Spanish-American War, or idyllic reminiscences of childhood...
Last Sunday the young prince, accompanied by his two sisters, left the family pew at Rome's quiet little Church of St. Girolamo. Pierino appeared, a pistol in his outstretched hand. "You die!" he shouted, and fired five times. The prince drew his own pistol, but before he could aim he slumped backward...
...Pew. Dr. Bach's report to Protestants is a hopeful one: "Historic Protestantism," he says, "will continue to dominate 'Church Street' just as it has since the birth of American freedom." His early crusade for church unity in Fairfield now seems to him "as unimportant as it was impractical." Protestantism's very multiplicity he now considers its strength. As Doc Reynolds once told him: "Protestantism ought to remind a man of spring . . . New life beginning to move. New cells splitting up . . . Did you ever think of Protestantism like that? . . . The multiplication of cells...