Word: revs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Under the bleak late-Victorian beamed roof of Westminster Church House last week sat the Worshipful Frederick Keppel North, Chancellor of the Diocese of Norwich, at the head of an ecclesiastical court to hear charges preferred by the Lord Bishop of Norwich against Rev. Harold F. Davidson. Church House was packed with prebendaries, minor canons, curates, newshawks. By nightfall British readers grew pop-eyed over the details of "the most sensational trial in church history." the trial of the "lewd rector of Stiffkey...
Stiffkey (pronounced "Stewky") is in Norfolk. Beyond officiating at matins and evensong on Sundays, bland, white-haired Dr. Davidson* spent little time there. His avowed mission was in London where he devoted himself to saving errant girls. "We believe," ran the formal charge, "that the Rev. Harold F. Davidson had a right and duty to rescue maidens from a life of sin, but that in the process he should not have: "Systematically misbehaved himself - "Kissed and hugged Barbara Harris in a Chinese restaurant in Bloomsbury "Permitted 17-year-old Barbara Harris to sleep in his bed - "Been guilty of immoral...
...days trying to get in touch with Col. Lindbergh, whose house is still flooded by several bags of crank mail daily and constant telephone calls. Having failed to get in touch with the lost child's parents, Mr. Curtis sought out two fellow-townsmen connected with the family: Rev. Harold Dobson-Peacock. pastor of the largest Episcopal congregation in the South who used to know the Morrows when he had a church in Mexico City, and Rear Admiral Guy Hamilton Burrage, U. S. N. Retired. It was on Admiral Burrage's Memphis that Col. Lindbergh triumphantly rode home...
...week. The organ groaned magnificently. Down the aisle stalked a scarlet-&-gold Yeoman of the Guard bearing on his head a solid gold platter piled high with purses of scarlet and white leather. Behind the Yeoman walked King George, Queen Mary and the King's Almoner, the Very Rev. J. Armitage Robinson whose other duties include the Deanship of Wells Cathedral...
...Director Fiske Kimball of the Pennsylvania Museum of Art, cash in hand, had won the New York Life's permission to take the lady to Philadelphia, set her up on a tower in Fairmount Park. At least one Philadelphian was not ready to welcome the "Lady Higher Up." Rev. Mary Hubbert Ellis, pastor of the Primitive Methodist Church, had heard that the Lady was nude. "We are going to have a meeting next Wednesday," said Primitive Methodist Ellis, "to take up complaints about obscene books, nude pictures and also this Diana statue. We are going after the whole situation...