Word: pews
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...complete ostracism. My relatives speak to me on the street, but that's all." Royce explained seriously that "we won't go to the back door of Stuart's family's house-and things could be awkward in church, because he has a front pew." But Outerbridge wants to stick it out, even though "lots of people would like to break me. However, if I get through the slack season, I'll be all right. I think we've found happiness; Royce is a wonderful person...
Music Hath Charms. In Chicago, Church Organist Robert J. Metzler, 50, got a court injunction against Harriet Davis, thirtyish, and her mother, Mrs. Belle Davis, fiftyish, complained that for four years they had upset his organ playing by coming to church on Sundays and ogling him from the front pew...
...everyone want to sit in the back of the church," said Assistant Secretary of Labor J. Ernest Wilkins to the Methodist Church Council of Bishops in Seattle. "A friend of mine the other day was telling me about an old saying . . . 'Beware of the man in the front pew.' The implication being, I suppose, that there is a certain amount of respectability in the admission that we are all sinners...
Music Hath Charms. In Chicago, Church Organist Robert J. Metzler, 50, got a court injunction against Harriet Davis, thirtyish, and her mother, Mrs. Belle Davis, fiftyish, complained that for four years they had upset his organ playing by coming to church on Sundays and ogling him from the front pew...
...Even the high-ranking generals among the Deputies had been surprised. It had all happened behind closed doors, within that narrow circle of men who, each fearful for his own life, had tried to create a headless dictatorship with checks and balances, and had failed. In the party Presidium pew Malenkov was hamming a little, pretending to talk to the men around him. But no one in that audience was deceived. They knew now how serious it was for Malenkov. At the other end of the bench the parched, crushed-satin face of Molotov was turned away, and Marshal Bulganin...