Word: sumpter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...London, and used to work with the grubby, grimy poor. In 1907, Edward VII offered him the Bishopric of Montreal. He refused. The Archbishopric of York was in his hopes. Next year he gained it. . . . Able prelates last week mooted as successors to him at York are: Frederic Sumpter Guy Warman, Bishop of Chelmsford; Herbert Hensley Henson, Bishop of Burham; Frank Theodore Woods, Bishop of Winchester; and Arthur Foley Winnington Ingram, Bishop of London. Potent have been the Archbishops of Canterbury in English history. Augustine (597-605) established Christianity in England. Bertha, queen of the fourth Saxon king of Kent...
...list of those who have joined the organization includes such names as Balys Sumpter, of the "Simon Called Peter" company, Harold Webster, recently with Jane Cowl and Ethel Barrymore, Helen Hayes, who is now playing in "Cleopatra" with the Theatre Guild, Elizabeth Patterson, star of "Candida" and one of the best known of America's character actresses, and Ann Carpenter, prominent member of the "Beggar on Horseback" cast...
...about every thirty years. In 1801 it voted solidly and persistently for Aaron Burr for president. In 1830 it undertook to nullify the tariff laws of the United States and was called to order sternly by Andrew Jackson. In 1860-61 it first seceded and then fired on Fort Sumpter and forced the rest of us into a hopeless civil war. In 1891 it threw out of the United States Senate Wade Hampton, the greatest soldier it ever has produced, and the man whose magnificent and daring leadership delivered it from the horrors and oppressions of reconstruction, replacing him with...