Word: shepherding
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Accepting the crozier (crook) of his office as spiritual shepherd, the embroidered mitre which is "a helmet of protection and salvation that the wearer may seem terrible to the opponents of truth," the two small gold & silver casks of wine and golden loaves of bread which are the offerings of the faithful to its priesthood, Dr. Thomas Kiley Gorman last week donned a pair of white kid gloves (as did Jacob who covered his hands with skins of kid), was blessed and became the first Roman Catholic Bishop of Reno, Nevada...
...Action. Back from his red brick summer home in Neudeck, East Prussia hurried the 83-year-old Reichspräsident last week to his official Berlin residence, the greystone rococo Palace on the Wilhelmstrasse. He did not leave the premises. Three times a day, his shepherd dog, Rolf, by his side, he tramped the gardens in back for a constitutional, the rest of the time spent with his ministers, signing decrees that Chancellor Brüning suggested. They closed the stock exchanges and for two days, to avert headlong panic, all the banks. They selected a Federal Commissioner of Finance...
...playing tennis, and John Van Ryn, who jumps around the court as though his legs were pogo-sticks, won the doubles championship in a long match against Henri Cochet and Jacques Brugnon ? 6-2, 10-8, 9-11, 3-6, 6-3. Two British women, Mrs. D. C. Shepherd-Barron and Phyllis Mudford, be came women's doubles champions. Mixed doubles champions were George Lott Jr. and Mrs. Lawrence A. Harper, a slim, serious Californian who plays with a bandeau around her dark hair and looks like an Indian...
...women he'll ever see while in college"); his word-coining ("quacktitioner," "pluviculture," "sciosophy" meaning organized ignorance); his abhorrence of liquor, tobacco, ignorance, arrogance, vulgarity (he said some people should write a "V" before their names); a fine old Tolstoyan sitting in the sun with his blackthorn stick and shepherd...
When he had thus indicated his plans, Overseer Voliva silenced any possible opposition by announcing: "The sheep are all subservient to the shepherd...