Word: reverend
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dean of Christ Church, and therefore of an Oxford College and a cathedral both, the Very Reverend John Lowe has been at Oxford for nine years, but few Oxonians would claim to know him well. He is a spare and stooped theologian, unfailingly polite to everyone-and just as unfailingly aloof. He gives no tutorials, has made few academic changes, seldom even invites anyone in to tea. But last week all Oxford was talking about John Lowe. He had just been made vice chancellor, the nearest thing Oxford has to a president (the chancellorship, at present held by Lord Halifax...
...making (by a Vogue associate editor), it pronounces the last, unquestionable Word on subjects ranging from table manners and cookery to the knottier intricacies of proper behavior for divorcees and the correct way to address a letter to an Archimandrite of the Greek Orthodox Church ("The Very Reverend Archimandrite"). Cold-toned, it tries to sell etiquette purely as a civic virtue. "Think of ball games," raps Author Fenwick (who obviously never does) "without a conventional seating system. Whenever egos touch . . . common sense demands a system. [Etiquette] is essential to the amenities of civilized life...
Deatherage, whose outfit would have had a hard time breaking up a Sunday School picnic, was merely exhorted to mend his ways, and sent home. As for larger game, Dies explained that if he treated Father Coughlin or Reverend Gerald Smith harshly, he might be accused of being anti-religious. When Representative Dickstein demanded angrily why the committee didn't investigate the America First group, Dies remarked blandly that he had no evidence that the Firsters were engaged in subversive activities...
...middle of the last century, the Reverend Mr. Jacob Abbott wrote a series of guide-books for children in which a character named Rollo asked endless questions of his Uncle George. Delmar Leighton '19, Dean of Freshmen, likes to quote from a parody of the series called "Rollo Visits Cambridge" in which Rollo asks Uncle George "What is a Dean?" and his sage relative replies: "A Dean is a sedate gentleman seated at a table playing solitaire, but he is also sort of a beadle, 'an official guide to the University' allowed to receive no fees for his services." Then...
...Open Road. "Reverend Mike" has set the maximum enrollment at 30-"a busload." Whenever masters and boys feel the itch, the school piles into its bus, with one of the masters at the wheel, and goes singing on its way. Studying the plays of Shaw and the poems of T. S. Eliot, they have driven down to Boston to see Man and Superman and hear Eliot lecture at Harvard. To study farming, and to earn a little spending money for other trips, they will bus to Aroostook County this fall to help with the potato harvest...