Word: revs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...days as a pioneer Wyoming lawyer, Willis Van Devanter was an ardent horseman and grizzly-hunter. At 77, he plays an occasional round of golf, goes duck-shooting several times each season. One of these forays occurred one afternoon early last month. He and his shooting crony, Rev. ZëBarney Phillips, chaplain of the Senate, went down to the Deep Hole Point Club, a rough wooden shack on the "Old Dawdon Place" near Occoquan, Va., 35 mi. southwest of Washington...
Married. Mrs. Clara Le Baron Morgan Warren, widow of Wyoming's Senator Francis Emroy Warren, mother-in-law of General John Joseph Pershing; and Albert Wells Russel, retired Cleveland businessman; by Rev. ZëBarney Thorne Phillips, chaplain of the U. S. Senate; in the Washington apartment of Associate Justice Willis Van Devanter of the U. S. Supreme Court...
...scene of a less publicized, less spectacular event. Paying nothing to get in, 18,000 New Yorkers settled themselves among its 20,000 seats. There was music by a Salvation Army band, a massed choir from city churches, a single speech. The speaker was that ever zealous Methodist Missionary, Rev. Dr. E. (for Eli) Stanley Jones. Cried...
...evangelistic tour one day late last July, a broad-shouldered little preacher turned to his secretary, exclaimed: "I just remembered. The American Tract Society asked me a year ago to write a treatise. Here the contest closes Sept. I and I haven't written a line!" With that Rev. Dr. Henry Allan Ironside grabbed a handful of pencils, a package of copy paper. On an eastbound train, he had a chapter ready to mail from Canton, Ohio. By the time Evangelist...
...Duke of Rutland, niece of Actress Lady Diana Duff Cooper and Secretary of State for War Alfred Duff Cooper; and Thomas Loel Evelyn Bulkeley Guinness, 30. divorced Member of Parliament for Bath whose sister, the Hon. Tanis Guinness Montagu, last month jilted the Earl of Carnarvon in Baltimore; by Rev. William Frederick Geikie-Cobb, one of the rare Church of England rectors willing to remarry divorcees; in London. To qualify as a resident of the parish of the Reverend Geikie-Cobb's Church of St. Ethelburga, Parliamentarian Guinness had to rent a room, sleep there seven nights...