Word: rectorate
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...Joseph Cullen Root of Lyons, Iowa, tired of his State-restricted fraternal insurance society, the V.A.S. (Vera Amicitia Sempiterna Est or "True Friendship is Eternal") of which he was Chief Rector, started a similar one which would know no bounds. He had fun preparing a ritual but was stumped for a name for his new order. Then in church one Sunday he heard a minister use the simile of woodmen clearing away the forest near their homes for safety's sake. Promptly Founder Root chose the name Modern Woodmen of America. Local lodges were called Camps, members Neighbors...
...General Lee has been elected president or rector of Lexington College .... We protest against the notion that he is a good instructor for youth or that he is fit to be put at the head of a college in a country situated in Virginia. A man who can do what he has done, take arms for a cause which nothing but his intellectual approval could justify his serving but which his intellect condemned is hardly a fit person either to train or to 'influence' young men. No amount of good talk now or hereafter about the 'duty of the citizen...
...Hardy, but who prefer to get these characters in short, excruciating doses, should be pleased with Pick a Star. Little Mr. Laurel and fat Mr. Hardy are presented in their own persons as stars on a comedy lot, apparently that of Mr. Roach. Says Simpleton Laurel to the di rector: "When am I supposed to look dumb...
...cigar with which he had had himself photographed on his arrival in Rome, Al Smith had substituted, before his audience, the required full dress and top hat. Kneeling, he received the Papal blessing, then had a chance to chat privately with His Holiness, with Bishop Ralph L. Hayes, rector of Rome's North American College, interpreting. To Pius XI, Mr. Smith offered a ten-inch gold model of the Empire State Building, volunteering the dimensions of his skyscraper when the Holy Father confessed that he had never ascended a structure higher than the Eiffel Tower. The Pope presented...
...Fort Lind, N. D. was billed to show how he led CCC boys in singing with his expensive accordion, but someone stole the instrument when he laid it down for a moment. For the third year the chaplains elected as their president Dr. Arlington Aice McCallum, reserve chaplain, energetic rector of St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Washington, who presides at conventions with a stopwatch to make sure no one talks too long...