Word: rectorate
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...Little Tui," the nephew, was Arthur Lee Kinsolving-son of a third clerical brother, the Rev. Arthur Barksdale Kinsolving, longtime rector of St. Paul's in Baltimore...
...blue eyes, a big nose and very little chin, looks like Alice in Wonderland's Mad Hatter. The British upper classes believe that he is mad. For 30 years Earl Russell has scandalized them with his unconventional ideas about politics, marriage, education. According to one tale, a local rector, visiting an unorthodox school for children that Bertrand Russell and the second of his three wives ran in Hampshire a few years ago, knocked on the door, which was opened by a nine-year-old girl, stark naked. Cried he: "Good God!" Retorted she, slamming the door: "There...
...destroyed) over 500,000 pets, mostly cats and dogs, rather than see them die horribly in air raids. The immediate result was a plague of rats and mice. Anti-rat drives were last month organized throughout Great Britain. In Saxmundham, Suffolk, an anti-rat conference revealed that the rector of neighboring Middleton has to keep his radio going full blast to drown out the sounds of gnawing and squeaking...
...announcement of the final decree of the court was made by A. Mercer Biddle of Philadelphia. Mercer was rector of the Trinity Church in New port. The original draft of the will was made...
Presented last week in the Living Church were the findings of a nationwide survey of insanity among Episcopal clergy by the Rev. Stephen Webster, Rector of St. Peter's Episcopal Church, Weston, Mass., and chaplain of the Boston Psychopathic Hospital, aided by Psychiatrist Kenneth James Tillotson. One out of every 71 Episcopal clergymen is a mental case, Mr. Webster reported. "This is ... low compared to the general population. There are figures to show that 1 in every 22 of the general population will have a mental disorder some time during their life...