Word: revs
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Very Rev. Hewlett Johnson, high-domed, white-thatched "Red Dean" of Canterbury, had a 50-minute audience with Joseph Stalin in Moscow, asked him: What about these charges of religious oppression? Replied Stalin: "Doubtless in a time of tension there were excesses. . . . The war, however, has created a new and different situation. , Religion cannot be stopped. . . . Religion is a matter of the conscience and the conscience is free...
Engaged. Captain Mildred Helen Mc Afee, 45, keen-witted director of the WAVES, president of Wellesley College (where she spends about ten days a month); and the Rev. Dr. Douglas Horton, 54, internationally known Congregationalist. Wellesley promptly advised that the Captain's marriage would not "affect the situation"; so did the Navy...
Love in Wartime. In Havana, Ill., the Rev. James L. Dial took pity on a point-short couple he had just married, lent them three pounds of sugar for their wedding cake. In Rochester, N.Y., a ration board heard from an applicant, "I'm getting married, so I need a new pair of work shoes," considerately marked his request "Urgent...
Skimmed Milk. One to whom the Committee listened intently was chin-whiskered Rev. W. E. B. Dubois, an official of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. He suggested amendments to clarify racial equality and treatment of colonies...
...whimsical Yorick of Tristram Shandy and A Sentimental Journey, the Rev. Laurence Sterne became one of the greatest professional charmers in English letters. The consumptive parson himself was more interesting than charming. So violently attracted to women that he could hardly focus his emotions on any one of them, he clothed his writing in delicate salacity, his love-making in delicate sentiment. Mr. Quennell sums up A Sentimental Journey as "a textbook on feeling"; but its author eludes...