Word: sexton
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...denizen of the Skidroad for 32 years has been skinny, soft-voiced Peter Fitzgerald, ex-sourdough, sexton of Our Lady of Good Help Church. To down-&-outers in filthy flophouses Pete Fitzgerald guided priests to administer the last sacrament...
...Fitz Eugene Newbold, partner in the 96-year-old house of W. H. Newbold's Son & Co., filed a registration statement with SEC three weeks ago, was preparing this week to sell $500,000 of stock to lease the mine from its owners, Philadelphians William and Mary Lord Sexton. Terms of the lease: $20,241 cash, at least $10,000 a year plus 10% of the gross. Trusting chiefly to the mine's great record, the Newbold syndicate has taken no new samples at New Almaden. It underlined the words "very speculative" on its SEC statement in true...
...lonely outposts at Effingham, Ill. and Sexton Summit, Ore., in the busy, bright-lighted teletype room at Newark Airport, in hundreds of other stations along the Civil Aeronautics Authority's 30,000-mile wire circuit, the machines broke off their cabalistic sequence of weather symbols one morning last week...
Birthdays. Brigadier General William Henry Bisbee, U. S. A., retired, 100, veteran of the Civil War, Sioux Indian campaigns, keen student of World War II, who received from the War Department the Order of the Purple Heart and from President Roosevelt a letter of felicitation; William Libbey Sexton, oldest living alumnus of Princeton University, 95; Wilhelm von Hohenzollern, onetime Kaiser of Germany. 81; James Clark McReynolds, senior Supreme Court Justice, 78; Franklin Delano Roosevelt, President...
...that Buck Duke used to tell on himself, of the time Mrs. Duke was dragging him through Europe into art galleries, cathedrals, etc., and while visiting Canterbury Cathedral, Buck felt tired. He seated himself in the nearest pew which happened to be the choir stalls. Quickly a sexton came up and asked if he would move for he was in a stall reserved for nobility. Buck Duke is reported to have asked the sexton, "Who in the hell do you think I am?" The sexton politely backed off and asked "Who, sir?" and Buck answered "Duke of Durham...