Word: revs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...preparation of some of the men who will be Bishops, or to be one." With these questioning words, a man who had been preparing other men for the ministry last week pondered the call to be a Bishop himself. The see: Washington, D.C. The man: the Very Rev. Angus Dun, 51, dean of the Episcopal Theological School, Cambridge, Mass...
...Rev. John K. Cartwright, a Catholic priest, contended that Esquire has a tendency to encourage low ideas of women. When Attorney Bromley brought out the fact that the Catholic Digest has carried reprints from Esquire and that Father Flanagan, of Boys' Town fame, has contributed articles to Esquire, Witness Cartwright countered: "Bad judgment...
...Rev. Peter Marshall, Presbyterian, said Esquire's jokes, articles and cartoons create "the impression that virginity . . . is a thing to be joked about," and added: "I believe that womanhood has definitely been lowered by the achievement of equality with...
...members of the royal household. "One Sunday the minister [at Balmoral], Mr. MacGregor. preached on the devil. Afterwards he asked Princess Louise whether the Queen liked his sermon. 'She said she ... should think not, as the Queen did not altogether believe in the devil.' " Said the Rev. Mr. MacGregor: "Puir body." Even more amusing is the story of wealthy, eccentric
...salty pedagogue who became a four-term Democratic Governor of Connecticut after his academic retirement in 1930. What the Sheff boys ostensibly got was a dose of Chaucer, the usual Shakespeare, and a ponderable amount of reading in the 18th-Century worthies. Henry Fielding and the "lousy parson," the Rev. Laurence Sterne. But what Wilbur Cross really gave the boys was a liberal education in the Connecticut spirit. That spirit lives and breathes throughout the octogenarian ex-Governor's autobiography, Connecticut Yankee, a lengthy document whose dry-sherry tang saves it from collapsing into garrulity...