Word: tillotson
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...essays on subjects not precisely calculated to appeal to the old master's usual fans. He writes about the short story, the novels of Goethe, a Hindu swami he once met, three French writers who kept personal and controversial journals, and about the life and writings of Dr. Tillotson, a 17th century Archbishop of Canterbury. A doubtful lot, on the face of it, but Maugham has the easy knack of wringing interest out of all of them. Virtually all of his information is from other books (which he freely admits), and he says very little that is original...
...medicine. They also provide training for Christian Science nurses, who learn their techniques of prayer and care in three-year courses (regular registered nurses need only a one-year Christian Science course). Enrollments, according to the report, are "at the highest point in many years." Said Leonard Tillotson Carney, newly elected President of the Mother Church (he was converted to Christian Science from the Congregational Church when his infant son was healed by a practitioner): "It is yielding to materiality that blocks our progress...
Darkest After Dawn. In Leeds, England, Mrs. Harry Tillotson got a divorce after testifying that her husband had once rubbed margarine in her hair, hurled a fried egg at her, generally made breakfast time unbearable by slamming doors, banging pots and pans, playing the radio at top volume, whistling through his teeth...
...John Tillotson Wainwright, who went into the U.S. foreign service, died a heroic death in 1930, trying to save two other swimmers in a raging...