Word: rectorate
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...talk behind green-shuttered windows whenever he walked down the street. Plump, rich Julia Smith, in whose backyard is the grave of an ancestor killed in the Revolution, was especially upset. She was president of the Ladies Aid Society and there the talk boiled up hottest. Gentle, white-haired Rector Livingston heard about it, of course, but he had been a pastor too long to pay much attention to the chatter of womenfolk. Besides, he had plenty of stanch supporters, and he loved his prim, 205-year-old Caroline Episcopal Church, with the mark of British bullets on its belfry...
...long been split emotionally, Livingston supporters lining up on one side of the courtroom, Smith supporters on the other. Everybody had a fine time. Miss Julia Smith cracked back at attorneys, insisted on standing up to testify, brandished a rubber at a photographer. Had she really accused Rector Livingston of misappropriating the money? "Mercy, mercy no!" All she had said was that some church money had been "diverted." By whom? Why, she had never said. Miss Nellie Prietzel and five other parishioners said she had. Six others said she had not. Mrs. Charles Edwards said she had heard Rector Livingston...
...College (Catonsville, Md.) where French Sulpicians recognized his talent for music, but was obliged to leave because of ill health. He completed his course at Boston College and later studied for the priesthood at North American College in Rome. At 34 he was the College's rector. Installed as bishop of Portland, Me. in 1901, he did so well that five years later he was made titular archbishop and bishop coadjutor of Boston. Stepping up after the death in 1907 of benign John Joseph Williams, Archbishop O'Connell raised money ably, consolidated charities, built schools and new parishes...
...next morning parked on a freight siding at Worcester, Mass. The next two days the President & party spent at Groton, his old school 25 miles away, with a return to Worcester and the special train for the night. At the school gates, by order of Dr. Endicott ("Peabo") Peabody, rector and headmaster, the President's entourage of newshawks and all his bodyguard save two Secret Service men were promptly locked...
...front surrounded by families of graduating "Grotties." President-Emeritus Lowell of Harvard made the "prize address." Dr. Peabody distributed 23 ordinary diplomas, one of which went to John Aspindall Roosevelt. 18 years old and 6 ft. 3 in. in stocking feet, youngest Presidential son. To others the venerable rector gave seven diplomas cum laude, one magna cum laude and 39 prizes...