Word: revs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...everywhere in Allied countries, leaders of all faiths accepted the destruction of the monastery in good faith that its destruction had been necessary. Said Archbishop Michael J. Curley of Baltimore: "Every Catholic throughout the world will understand." Wrote the Rt. Rev. Stephen Schappler, Abbott of Conception Abbey at Conception, Mo.: "True to the device on her coat of arms, Succisa Virescit (when cut down, it grows again), the Abbey of Abbeys will have a rebirth. For that right our own boys are giving their all. Benedictines the world over are grateful to them...
Times readers reached for their pens; wrote the Rev. L. F. Harvey, of Shrewsbury: "He [Lord Lang] would have made the matter clearer had he said 'even at the cost of the lives of British and Allied troops.' . . . Does the Archbishop wish to convey that he regards human life as of less value than a monument?" Wrote Poet Sir John Squire, former editor of the London Mercury: "The Reverend Gentleman seems to think that stones are stones and St. Peter's but an organized quarry instead of a crystallization of the human spirit, building ad majorem...
Illustrious men came to Kirk Bramwith for the unveiling. J. G. Groeninger, an American in the consular service, drew aside the Union Jack which covered the window. Captain the Rev. R. Whincup, the village rector, stood under the Stars & Stripes to read a message from the King. Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster Ernest Brown made a speech. General Sir Bernard L. Montgomery saluted the village spirit...
Early in the game, the brothers' religious interest paid off in a big way. A clergyman friend, the Rev. Charles Kingsley, brought them a novel he had written called Westward Ho! "The right article and no mistake!" cried Alexander. He was dead right. Two years later the brothers hit the jackpot again with Thomas Hughes's Tom Brown's Schooldays. Soon they added Thomas Huxley and Matthew Arnold to their list, gained wide prestige with Palgrave's Golden Treasury of English Songs and Lyrics and The Cambridge Shakespeare...
...Christian Beacon found the matter indicative of "a most deplorable and desperate condition" in the Navy. The Beacon's editor, the Rev. Carl Mc-Intire, took the occasion to wind up with a slap at Chief of Naval Chaplains Robert D. Workman, "who is a minister of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. and who . . . has set out to produce a chaplaincy corps in the Navy which is streamlined according to his own ideas. . . . This information is brought with the one desire of helping to correct the condition, and that we shall have a man at the head...