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...party drew up before the small churchyard at Sand Fork. Forming in procession, the men of God marched into the church. There Bishop Swint solemnly handed purple robes, a purple biretta and a white lace cotta (surplice) to a wrinkled-faced, white-haired old priest named Thomas Aquinas Quirk whom Pope Pius XI had elected to invest with the title Monsignor...
This honorary officership in the army of the Church Militant was 65 years in coming to Father Quirk. Born in Ireland 91 years ago, he fought in the U. S. Civil War, became a priest in 1870, is supposed to have twice renounced his rights to an earldom. Alert old Father Quirk has ministered for half a century to three mountain parishes 15 miles apart. Devoted to his collie "Shep," his blackened pipe, his comfortable Congress gaiters and his crushed black hat, he refused until last year to accept an automobile from his flock, preferring to ride from parish...
While reading all such material and pursuing all such researches, he developed many a quirk, which Prudential men fondly retold this week...
...quirk of blank treaties gave Mr. Hull a graceful out. As he raced to catch his boat to Buenos Aires, he announced that able U. S. Minister to Uruguay J. Butler Wright, a member of the U. S. Delegation, will thoroughly examine Conference treaties as they are completed, signing those which seem to be in order, sending them to the State Department...
There is a mysterious quirk in a twenty year old will which prevents the name "Kirkland" from gracing the ultra-official roster of the Houses. But the legal insistence upon the names of George, James, and Persist Smith is one of the more fortunate accidents in the errant science of nomenclature. For today, the Kirkland House preserves intact the heritage of its days as a Freshman playground. From any point of view it is on the periphery of the House plan: its mundane quadrangle embraces an independence and unity which others have sought vainly to inspire; it has developed...