Word: pewse
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Too many pews may be empty in England, but the easy chairs, sofas and hassocks in front of television sets are well warmed. What is more, TV producers want more clergymen to man their panel-discussion programs. This chance to talk to a vast new congregation is hampered by one...
Emotional Flames. The congregation was stunned. Some women in the choir burst into tears. Several parishioners rose from their pews to denounce Commissioner King. "You have been listening to the wrong people," said one. "If we kick a Christian man and his family out like this, what hope have we...
Long Life & Grace. Curley would have taken the funeral Mass too, with his own Jesuit son. Father Francis, as celebrant and the Archbishop of Boston in the sanctuary. Packing the pews and spilling into the streets: notables and Knights of Columbus, workingmen and housewives and ward politicians, down to 79...
Like the weddings performed by Dog-patch's Marryin' Sam-who climaxes his deluxe $2.98 ceremony by thrusting a pair of lighted candles in his ears and jumping off a cliff whistling The Burning of Rome-French funerals come in several grades. It is the undertakers who set...
There is a tale making the slow rounds about the Art of Henry James. James, it goes, constructed a great Gothic Cathedral of his craft. Beneath the arches and between the pews our heels clatter and our voices echo. But upon arriving at the altar (so says the story) we...