Word: priestly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Furys began with the return of 18-year-old Peter Fury to the slums after he had been expelled from college where he was studying to be a priest. It ended, 549 pages later, with his going to sea after he had destroyed his mother's last hope, had a love affair with Sheila, his brother's wife, witnessed a general strike. Most vivid characterization was the demoniac Mrs. Fury, who fought the squalor that rose like a flood around her and was defeated in every hope...
...unholy triumvirate, Coughlin, Town-send and Lemke sent their pawns before the people and everywhere they fell by the way. Even Catholic centres, where Coughlin's noxious influence was held strongest, delivered in rapid succession stinging slaps in the face of the political priest. And Lemke, like a bewildered lamb before the slaughter, was trailing even in the race for representative in his home community...
...costume consisting of a red coat, white pants and a white cap, this amazingly ubiquitous character climbed unnoticed onto the speakers' platform at Detroit. As Radiorator Coughlin was loudly explaining the difference between Communism and Christianity, nimble Woody Hockaday showered him with feathers, deftly sidestepped a punch the priest aimed at him, shouted into the microphone: "You can't mix religion and politics!" While Peaceman Hockaday was being hauled off to a cell, Father Coughlin regained his composure, continued his address, feathers fluttering with every gesture...
...Turney tells the story, the priest Calchas (Harry Irvine) is clamoring for a ''holy war" to rescue divine Helen from Troy, but the gods will not let Troyward winds blow until the unclean house of Atreus is purged by sacrifice. Iphigenia, daughter of Clytemnestra and Agamemnon, is lured to Aulis in the belief that she is to wed Achilles, and Calchas there prepares to sacrifice her. Mad with grief when Agamemnon refuses to interfere, Clytemnestra blasphemes the gods, calls Helen a whore, vows vengeance upon her husband. When Agamemnon returns from Troy after 1,007 days...
...ably that, even after he became bishop in 1930, he returned there to preach because the congregation could get along with no other man. The present handsome, white-stone building, housing the largest congregation (2,000) in the diocese, contains a stained glass window with the figure of a priest blessing little children, a fresco showing a youth in red pants carrying St. Luke's Church to the Lord. Both hawk-nosed figures are unmistakable likenesses, to the Bishop's quiet satisfaction, of George Craig Stewart...