Word: reverend
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Among the backers of Bricett (who failed to finish): the Reverend J. S. Clarke, vicar of St. Barnabas Church, Plymouth, who advised his congregation to put a bob (no more) on the race. He added: "Though betting is a mug's game, to say that he who puts a shilling on the National is morally wrong is probably not true." Suggested the U.S. magazine The Blood-Horse: why doesn't Parson Clarke call his next sermon "Blessed Are the Pacemakers...
...Norton, who introduced this Rubaiyat to the U.S., showed it to crusty Historian Thomas Carlyle, remarking that it was rumored to be the work of a "Rev. Edward FitzGerald, who lived somewhere in Norfolk and spent much time in his boat." Cried Carlyle: "Why, he's no more Reverend than I am! He's a very old friend of mine . . . and [he] might have spent his time to much better purpose than in busying himself with the verses of that old Mohammedan blackguard...
...Reverend Leonard Feeney, S.J., noted Jesuit author and lecturer, will be guest speaker at a communion breakfast on Sunday morning, the first Sunday in Lent, under the auspices of the combined Harvard and Radcliffe Catholic Clubs...
Catholic students will receive communion in a body at St. Paul's Church, and the breakfast will be served afterwards in the Continental Hotel. The Reverend John Sullivan, Chaplain of the Harvard Catholic Club, will introduce the speaker...
Last week the Most Reverend and Right Honourable Geoffrey Francis Fisher, Archbishop of Canterbury and Primate of All England, was happy to get a letter from the son of a U.S. Methodist minister. The letter began: "My dear Archbishop: I have this day placed at your disposal with the British Embassy in Washington...