Word: revs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Street on the edge of town, since his last trip home. That evening he was host to royalty: Prince Louis Ferdinand Hohenzollern and his bride, the former Grand Duchess Kyra Romanoff. When he took them to church on Sunday morning, he was tickled by a parable read by the Rev. Frank R. Wilson. It was an essay by a school girl on Manhattan's East Side. Its subject: "True greatness." Its text...
...most famed religious conversions since that of St. Paul, and probably the best-documented in modern times, was that of John Wesley, founder of Methodism. To a recent Roman Catholic student of Wesley, Rev. Maximin Piette, this conversion was "a gust of feeling so unimportant that Wesley might well have forgotten all about it had he not recorded it at the lime." Nevertheless, Wesley did record it, in words which Methodists have treasured to this...
...Springfield, Vt. last fortnight, Rev. Lawrence Larrowe, youngish Methodist minister, pulled on hip boots and, along with many another citizen on the opening day of trout season, went fishing. It was Sunday, but Methodist Larrowe had informed his congregation of his plans, and engaged a supply pastor to preach to them. Presently, eight fish in his creel, Angler Larrowe attended services at another church, and said: "I feel that I have spent a Christian Sunday...
...Congregation in Rome-the first meeting of the high command of the Society of Jesus since 1923-French Catholics believe that this Jesuit left wing predominated. Immensely secret, the Congregation revealed only that it had elected a Perpetual Vicar General for the order, to help the ailing General, Very Rev. Wlodimir Ledochowsky, with his manifold duties. The new Vicar General, a 37-year-old Belgian named Maurice Schurmans, was saluted by French Jesuits as an able antiFascist, of a neutral nation, who would help orient the policies of the Society of Jesus toward a world-wide battle against Fascism...
Speaking at a London literary luncheon, Very Rev. William Ralph Inge, longtime (1911-34) "Gloomy Dean" of St. Paul's Cathedral, made some prophecies about dictionaries of the future. Under "negus," said he, one might soon expect to find "1. A drink composed of wine, water and sugar. 2. See Victor Emmanuel. In the same way, in the next edition, you may see: Democracy-obsolete form of government still practiced in North America. See dictator." In New Haven, Conn., Yale Freshman William Eldred Jackson, only son of U. S. Solicitor General Robert Houghwout Jackson, was arrested for pulling down...