Word: vestment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...background such as might at once lend to a U. S. Archbishopric the character acquired by the Anglican ones through the centuries. He has a home in Providence full of antiques and paintings, a large library, a summer home in Massachusetts, and a costly cope (capelike ecclesiastical vestment) which excited much comment at last year's Catholic Congress in Philadelphia, whither he had it shipped in an enormous packing case (TIME, Nov. 6). Bishop Perry is an enlightened, cultured divine whose genial oratory makes him especially welcome at public dinners. He is also the first Presiding Bishop to hold...
...much surprised if I were to tell you that there is a certain Wall Street international banker who was for years the vice president in charge of the foreign department of one of the largest Wall Street banks, then president of a smaller bank, then a Wall Street in vestment counsel, and who now represents himself to be the intimate adviser of Senator Thomas? This is not hearsay. This man has stated not once but several times that not only is he Senator Thomas's ad viser, but that he helps the good Senator to write many...
...Carlyle there has grown up the convenient myth that for him life was an eternal stomach-ache. This theory was put forward by literary critics to explain the epithetical bombast that he was pleased to call his literary style. This pleasant theory has since been taken up as a vestment of culture by intellectually striving debutantes whose only recollection of "Past and Present" is that it might have been a Vincent Club show of ten years ago. There is something rather dashing and knowing in the statement, "Oh Carlyle-a chronic dyspeptic," particularly if said with a sweep...
...first began to work together in 1929 when Mr. Giannini, anticipating his retirement, looked for a leader to replace him. Mr. Walker, he thought, possessed prestige as well as brilliance and was a man of broad enough vision to carry on the dreams of the branch banking and in vestment empire which Transamerica rep resented. Soon after Mr. Giannini retired friction became apparent. Friends of Mr. Walker think that when, in the early part of 1930, he became fully familiar with the task ahead of him, he was aghast at the true situation, and has since labored tirelessly to turn...