Word: revs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ceremony was to be performed by the Cathedral's British dean, the Very Rev. Dr. A. C. S. Trivett. Upon him crashed an avalanche of letters from crusty Shanghai Britons and their wives. Was the Church of England going to do "irreparable damage to British prestige" in China? Was a "bazaar girl," as the English ladies expressed it, to be wed in a Christian Cathedral pack-jammed with pagan guests and with Chinese floodlights and Chinese sound cameras perpetuating the scene to be flung before slant-eyed millions in Chinese newsreels...
That was exactly what the Very Rev. Dr. Trivett had in mind. The hubbub of Chinese in his Cathedral was so loud that the Dean had to shout the Anglican service at the top of his voice to get it on cinema sound tracks distinctly. With Chinese mothers suckling their babes in the sacred aisles, with nimble Chinese climbing the Cathedral's pillars for a better view, and with Miss Butterfly Wu triumphant, white friends of the bridegroom and members of the diplomatic corps stayed away and shuddered...
...valuable publicity, which the mission could not possibly have bought for itself." Currently receiving "exceedingly valuable publicity" which they could not possibly buy for themselves are Japan's No. 1 Christian, Dr. Toyohiko Kagawa, whom the Hearst Press is crying down as an "alien propagandist"; and the Most Rev. William Temple, Archbishop of York, whom Hearstpapers have trailed with a running fire of vituperation as "another meddlesome British propagandist" who ''should stay at home-and if necessary, BE KEPT IN CONFINEMENT...
...Telemark & Christiania. The sport of skiing was introduced into Switzerland a few years before the turn of the Century by English sportsmen who had picked it up in Norway, correctly considered the Alps ideal skiing terrain. In the U. S., the first skier on authentic record was the Rev. John L. Dyer, a Colorado Methodist preacher, who used skis to carry mail to his parishioners in the early 1850's. Norwegians in the Midwest organized the first U. S. ski-jumping tournament...
...clothing smoking and his coal afire, Driver Wilson departed in bewilderment. Firemen later extinguished the blaze. By the smoldering bed they found the charred bodies of two Negro men, one Negro woman, all devout disciples of Harlem's bald little Rev. Major J. ("Father") Divine (TIME, May 27, March n, et ante...