Word: sorts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Very Reverend Frank Selwyn Macaulay Bennett, 60, Dean of Chester, genial husbandman of souls: "I lived as a boy in the middle of a great hunting country. Hounds and pink coats still give me a sort of tingle. But the best part of me knows that it is all barbarous and brutal...
...Report, six are concerned entirely with men now in clubs. The Committee has recognized and admitted this limitation of interest but it states that the only means by which to rectify the conditions against which it protests is a public discussion, since there is no definite union of any sort between all clubs. The matter of these six points is to put it briefly, the inter-relation of members of one club to those of another, and the Committee's endeavor has been to make these inter-relations more inclusive and less rigid...
...Formation of new clubs would tend to increase the importance of clubs as Harvard institutions. Whereas now only club members are interested in and informed on clubs, the subject would, by this proposal, necessitate the great majority of men joining some sort of organization and although the eating situation might possibly be solved thus, this benefit would be outbalanced by the evils of instituting a club regime--the inevitable end, toward which this project tends...
...husband who claimed damages for the loss of his wife. Last week, Baron Hewart set out to better this quip. Said he to an attorney in open court: "If the Chancellor of the Exchequer really desires an additional source of revenue, he might consider issuing a new sort of postage stamp which husbands and wives could stick upon each other and automatically become divorced. . . . The rush to obtain divorces since newspaper publicity was prohibited (TIME, Dec. 20) has been so great that in one day 17 cases of this nature have been presented before me. . . . Some new and ingenious system...
...merely 'tenant parsons' There is just as much danger in this aspect of modern religion as there is in the problem of tenant farmers from an economic standpoint. Young men go into the country sections and do good work for two or three years as a sort of apprenticeship to moving into the city." He recommended: "A sort of traveling parson who would serve several missionary stations." And he advocated a minimum wage scale for rural clergy...