Word: vicar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...common pleas court, Philadelphia, for reinstatement in the Episcopalian ministry. The suit is still pending. Last year he went abroad to stump for Britain's Labor Party. Lately he has been preaching at St. Columba's Church, Hull, England. Last week the Rev. Canon Edward Arthur Berry, Vicar of Drypool, went to tall, bald, sleek Preacher Richmond, prevailed on him to stop preaching at St. Columba's. Said he to inquirers: "I felt he was too emotional and too excitable. My sole reason was I did not think he was in a fit state to preach...
...doubtful, silent, bedridden old man. After the launching of the cruiser, the story shifts to the shop of philosophical Tobacconist Jones. In Jones's shop gathers a mixed crowd of intellects: Langham, the brilliant Radical politician, pro-Boer now, anti-German later; Talbot the East End vicar, gently skeptical of the ways of men, passionately curious about the ways of fungi; young Bolt, the old shipwright's son, who wants to be a teacher, a journalist, anything but the soldier's corpse he finally becomes...