Word: quine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...29th, he dismissed the entire sophomore class, and made the stunning announcement that criminal prosecution would be instituted against the window-breakers. Then, hell broke loose. More windows were smashed, Quincy was hanged in effigy, handwriting appeared on the wall in the chapel saying "A Bone for Old Quin to Pick," and the flag of rebellion flew over Holworthy. Quincy himself testified for three days before the Concord grand jury, the only three times he missed morning prayers while at Harvard...
Segregation was a problem that Texas' Bishop Clinton S. Quin was sure could be taken care of when Houston was picked at the church's 1952 General Convention. He laid plans to serve nonsegregated meals three times a day at the Houston Coliseum and to build a nonsegregated motel that, together with the University of Houston dormitories, would house the convention's sprinkling of Negro delegates (about 2%) together with their white brethren. A car pool would provide non-Jim Crow transportation. But the Negroes would still have been barred from most hotels and restaurants in Houston...
...explain: "I am convinced that on both the international and the national level the scene has altered radically . . . We live in a time of crisis ... I am certain that the witness of our church must be so clear that it need not be explained ..." But hearty, Kentucky-born Bishop Quin, whose 35 years as bishop of Texas make him the Episcopal bishop oldest in service, replied bitterly: "I'm the goat ... I do not like the decision. I do not think it was warranted . . . But I thank God for the kind of religion I have ... which gives...
...turning now, to the call of a blonde trollop?" Sabrina Home's bosom (a prominent feature of this novel) was agitated by this question whenever she saw Sir John Templar, in a bedroom across the street, "take a running jump and land ploof" alongside Molly Quin, his doxy. To make matters worse, Sabrina was married to old Sir William Wakefield, "a spent candle." How, Sabrina wondered, could she escape from Sir William and join ardent Sir John...
...Good Shepherd. In Houston, campaigning for traffic safety, Episcopal Bishop Clinton S. Quin passed out cards urging local drivers to be more careful at the wheel because "You may hit an Episcopalian...