Word: vicar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...church. Rev. E. G. Hall, rector of Friern Barnet, thought he had found a way to control confetti. He would charge five shillings ($1.25) extra per wedding, to be forfeit should any confetti be thrown. At Hatneld, Herts., it was proposed to charge ten shillings. Pontificated Rev. Oscar Stanway, vicar of Claygate, Surrey: "Confetti-throwing is meaningless and messy!" Even worse, said he, is the prevalent practice of throwing imitation rose petals: they show up much more. "Never heard an argument in favor of confetti," said Rev. F. L. H. Millard of St. John-the-Evangelist, North Brixton, London...
Shaking his head gravely, the old verger of a parish church in London said it sometimes took half an hour to pick up all the confetti after a good wedding. Croaked he: "In the old days when people used to throw rice, we had a vicar who would go outside before a wedding and confiscate all the bags of rice he could and give them away afterwards. But you cannot make a pudding out of this stuff...
...British country family one of these bright spring weekends and at teatime you are likely to see such a scene as this: on the tennis-court are the Hon. Diana and the Hon. Molly, daughters of your host Lord Wilchester, playing a stiff set of tennis with the vicar of the parish and his young curate. If there is a cathedral in the neighborhood you will probably see its dean among the guests, and drinking tea with old Lady Wilchester (who is exceedingly deaf) will be a prebendary. Lord Wilchester, who owns the vicar's living (i.e., holds appointive...
...London Daily Mail intruded a note of alarm, predicted that changes in the administration of the Church of England might well revolutionize the life of every parish in England. Since there is a deficiency of some 1,100 clergymen in the Church, there must soon be redistribution of vicars and curates (their assistants) and an amalgamation of many parishes which are at present thinly populated. Some congregations might be transported by bus to and from distant churches. Some curates might be obliged to scurry here & there by motorcycle in order to care for their several flocks...
...Vicar of Jennifer's village was one James Oilier, a beneficent gardening kind of man held strictly to business by an acidulous sister Alice. James was to Alice as Jennifer had been to Father. When James and Jennifer showed signs of drifting together, Alice whisked him off to Switzerland. Jennifer was a little hurt but forgot it when Father's wife left him and left Father on her hands again. By a cataclysmic effort of will, James shook Alice long enough to rush manfully home to Jennifer, declare himself unvicarishly. Father, a selfish, tactless man on the whole...