Word: rectoral
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...masse to see them motor through: one family chopped 20 ft. out of their lilac hedge to clear the view. At Hyde Park, where the royal standard was flown from the portico, the grueling formality and handshaking ended (the royal hands were swollen). After church on Sunday, where Rector Frank Wilson dryly observed that attendance would improve if all parishioners would bring their guests as Mr. Roosevelt did, the King shed his necktie, ate hot dogs, drank beer (Ruppert's) at a "dream cottage" picnic, photographed the Indian storyteller and singer who performed. Squire Roosevelt whizzed the Royal pair...
...Frank R. Wilson had his telephone disconnected to keep people from pestering him for seats at the service he will perform Sunday in St. James Episcopal ("the President's") Church, with presiding Bishop Henry St. George Tucker of the U. S. Protestant Episcopal Church preaching the sermon. Rector Wilson declared that faithful past church attendance would now yield a dividend: regular worshippers would get seats, others would have to stand in the grounds outside. He also put churchmanlike perspective on all the hullabaloo. Said he: "We realize it is a great honor that our church will be the only...
Horseshoe flings a gay revue of yesteryear, all fluffy ruffles and "cheesecake." Scenes of pre-War Rector's, of Delmonico's on New Year's Eve with Diamond Jim Brady and Lillian Russell, a medley of old Ziegfeld Follies tune hits, tincture sex with nostalgia. Waddling souvenir of the past is onetime Glamor Girl Fritzi Scheff gurgling Kiss Me Again...
...Chief radio critic of Orator Coughlin is Father William Charles Kernan (pronounced Kernan), a Yale-trained ('23) high church Episcopalian, rector of Bayonne, N. J.'s Trinity Episcopal Church. Last fortnight, in the fourth of a series of anti-Coughlin blasts on Manhattan Station...
...Rector Hart: "Almighty and Everliving God . . . we make our humble supplications unto Thee for this Thy servant, Franklin, upon whom is laid the responsibility for the guidance of this Nation. Let Thy fatherly hand, we beseech Thee, ever be over him; let Thy Holy Spirit ever be with him; and so lead him in the knowledge and obedience of Thy word, that in the end he may obtain everlasting life...