Word: rectoral
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...Tunis was more tickled to see the British First Army than the Rev. Isaac Dunbar, British rector of St. George's Church.* The victory ended Mr. Dunbar's 167 days of hide-&-seek with the Nazis and Italians...
...there was time to praise heroes. Many were cited for gallantry last week, and the names of their home towns-Phoebus, Va., Quenemo, Kans., La Porte, Ind., Dabolt, Ky., Rector, Ark., Star City, W.Va.-were eloquent of the U.S. at war. Among those honored were: < Two Roosevelts, father and son, respectively son and grandson of the great Teddy. To Brigadier General Theodore Roosevelt Jr., assistant commanding general of the First Division, in which he won many a decoration during World War I, went an Oak Leaf Cluster for his Silver Star. The New Yorker this month reported from Tunisia...
...heart attacks, the prelate's seven years at Westminster were enormously active. When the late Pope Pius XI appointed Hinsley Archbishop in 1935 he was practically unknown in England. Son of a Yorkshire carpenter and an Irish mother, he had spent several quiet decades as a schoolmaster and rector of a London parish and Rome's English College. In 1926 he was consecrated a Bishop and sent to Africa as Visitor Apostolic to Catholic missions. In 1934, aged 69, he retired...
...towering, mossy oaks of Bayou du Large, La. they finally got around to celebrating Christmas, last Sunday. A tinseled tree glittered in the little white chapel of St. Andrew's Episcopal Mission. Children solemnly posed in a tableau of the Nativity. The young Rev. Clarence R. Haden Jr., rector of St. Matthew's Church in nearby Houma, preached a Yuletide sermon to some 100 people...
Twenty-one years ago the Episcopal rector at Houma heard about the shy folk of Bayou du Large, learned they were not Roman Catholics, had little education, no church. He started St. Andrew's Mission, taught the trappers' families how to read and write...