Word: sillness
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...triumphant Democrats were led by Richardson Dilworth, firebrand Yale-trained lawyer, ex-Marine major, and local leader of the Fair Dealing Americans for Democratic Action (A.D.A.). Working with him was Joseph Sill Clark Jr., a Chestnut Hill socialite. As treasurer and controller respectively, two new Democratic officials will take charge of the city's much-abused purse...
...friend on the sixth floor," he said. Then in blue pajamas and red dressing gown, he groped his way up the stairs to the valet's own room. A moment later a waiter looked up to see a red-clad figure sitting on the window sill. Then all that was left of Lucky Beatty lay crumpled on the pavement below...
...windows and into which, with the door ajar, the shafted sun lay in a lengthened arch of blazing sovereigns. Over a corn bin on which he had packed last autumn's ferns lay Paddy snoring ... a web strung from one lock of hair back onto the sill above . . . Caught in the reflection of spring sunlight this cobweb looked to be made of gold as did those others which by working long minutes spiders had drawn from spar to spar of the fern bedding on which his head rested. It might have been almost that O'Conor...
Unlike Founder Sill and retiring Headmaster Father William Scott Chalmers (who was California-bound to take over North Hollywood's Harvard School), lean, 41-year-old John Oliver Patterson has never been a monastic. Born in Goldfield, Nev., he was originally trained as an architect at the University of Illinois and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. After two years as a practising architect the new "pater" left his drawing board for the ministry, now has 15 bustling years in Midwestern parishes behind him. In the last eight years he has swelled his Madison, Wis. congregation from...
When Father Patterson takes over this fall, Kent anticipates few changes in its way of life. The new head has pledged himself to carry on Founder Sill's original program and continue to make "every aspect of life on the campus express and induce Christian principles and Christian living...