Word: revs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Anti-Clerical. In Philadelphia, the Rev. Isaac Bobst fought to win a divorce, complained that his wife coughed during church services, made faces, thumbed her nose at him when he was in the pulpit...
After finishing last week's breakfast of tomato juice, scrambled eggs, hot biscuits and coffee, guests listened to bespectacled Rev. John J. Queally (at head of table, see cut) of Washington's Transfiguration Episcopal Church. He rose without introduction, to pour out "thoughts from my heart which I hope will aid my hearers." When he finished, there was a moment or two of silence, then a benediction. His topic: "Unfairness." Some of his thoughts: "Quiet thinking and meditation are necessary so that our minds can meet and get strength to meet the tasks ahead. . . . People must seek peace...
...members of the squad, John Moore, Junior Fellow, and Frank David '49, remain undefeated. The team's sole loss was suffered at the hands of the veteran chess players of the Boston Harvard Club headed by septuagenarian Rev. George L. Paine '96. They were tied by the Boylston Chess Club...
Poverty for All. Those who come to St. F.X.'s modest brick and wooden buildings soon get to know the broad-minded Roman Catholic priest who is the director of the college's extension department: the Rev. Dr. Moses Matthias Coady. His ringing voice, ruddy features and muscular 250 pounds are familiar all over the Maritimes. He was born on a farm in a Nova Scotian village, tiny Margaree Forks, which had poverty aplenty. He studied in Antigonish, in Rome, and in Washington, taught school, preached, but never forgot his birthplace...
...Messa." In the nearby town of Varese lived the Rev. Giovanni Battista Schreider, a serious, bald, bespectacled Baptist minister. When he heard of the state of affairs at Caravate, he put in an urgent call for his friend Angelo Messa, an elder of the Baptist Church in Milan.* Both hastened to Caravate, arrived to find a crowd milling around the main square. From a balcony above their heads Pastor Schreider blasted the papal system, offered the "true faith which does not need external manifestations to assert itself." The crowd cheered. Many said they were ready to turn Protestant...