Word: rectorate
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Eugene Lyons' The Red Decade for $100,000. Named by red-hating Lyons as a fellow traveler who defended Moscow's mass trials and executions, Lamont protested that Lyons had wrongfully classified him as a "stinker." Lyons retorted with a charge that Lamont, a Civil Liberties di rector, forced giant book-distributor Baker & Taylor to drop the book by threatening suit, a The day that Socialist Norman Thomas made an anti-war talk outside the University of California, his son, Evan, 21, quit Princeton to drive an ambulance for the British in the Near East. ∙∙ John...
Nature and machines are other characters in the larger drama. A wedge of planes blasts to bits the Rector's fuddling interpretation of the show; and butterflies are deluded by bright costumes on the grass: "Red Admirals gluttonously absorbed richness from dish cloths, cabbage whites drank icy coolness from silver paper...
...Marshall M. Milton 28-year-old Episcopal rector of Brandon Parish, Prince George County, Va., got a year's leave to ferry bombers to Britain...
Later he ran away for four days, walked 50 miles to spend the night (chastely) with a local trull, who told him: "You are too innocent to be a priest. You will be a great failure." Rector MacNabb suggested that for penance Francis write 2,000 words on "The Virtue of Walking." Wrote the local priest: "Naturally, the pinnacle of achievement would have been the conversion of the woman ... as the result of our young apostle's visitation! But alas! She has gone into partnership with another madam and opened a brothel in Barcelona, which I grieve to report...
Louis L. PERKINS Rector The Church of the Good Shepherd Shelton, Conn...