Word: theophilus
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...Five, which have gone through a number of changes in ownership, now are: Alexander & Baldwin, Ltd. (founded by two missionaries' sons); C. Brewer & Co., Ltd. (founded by a New England trader, James Hunnewell); Theo. H. Davies & Co., Ltd. (founded by Theophilus Davies, of England); American Factors, Ltd. (founded by Captain Henry Hackfeld of Germany); and Castle & Cooke, Ltd. (founded by missionaries...
White-haired, deep-eyed old Metropolitan Theophilus, 73, head of the American church, refuses to grant Moscow's Patriarch even spiritual authority. "I wouldn't trust any Bolshevik," he mutters. But not all North American bishops share his contempt for the Patriarch's difficult and dangerous game of pattycake with the Kremlin. Explained handsome, popular young Bishop John of Brooklyn last week...
...considered leftist. When Rainey was fired, three years ago, Frank Dobie told a Kiwanis meeting that "no self-respecting, able member of the present faculty would serve as president. But the regents will have no trouble finding a bootlicker or a quisling...." A few days later, the regents named Theophilus Shickel Painter, a mild-mannered zoology professor, as president. Governor Coke Stevenson told the regents that, if he were one of them, he would fire Dobie "without batting...
...conquerors in 1453. Throughout those dark ages Byzantium had blazed, fitfully bright, as the half-classical, half-oriental capital of pagan and Christian art alike. Baltimore's entire exhibition would have been barely enough to ornament a single villa for a favorite courtesan of the 9th Century Emperor Theophilus. In a day when Rome was a vast ruin, and Paris and London mud-walled towns, Theophilus was tearing down palaces in Byzantium (which Constantine I had renamed Constantinople) simply for the fun of planning new and better ones'. Theophilus liked such playthings as a pair of life-size...
...When Theophilus sent Bishop Benjamin Basalyga of Pittsburgh, a group of several hundred White Russians in Japan, most of whom have recently taken out Soviet citizenship, requested Patriarch Alexei to supply a spiritual leader for the Japanese church. Alexei promptly raised the ante; he offered (through Soviet General Kuzma Derevyanko in Tokyo) to send in two bishops. Few Japanese converts to the Orthodox Church had supported the request to Alexei, and the Russian bishops were not allowed to enter...