Word: vicar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...publisher's duty to his readership. To millions of English "small-means men" and their families, it is the most appealing kind of publishing. Some of the latest copies of the Express to reach the U. S. were filled with their usual budget of post-crisis news: the Vicar of Southwold had seen a genuine sea monster offshore, a dog was tried for biting a dustman, a Wiltshire schoolmistress had found a mushroom over eleven inches wide. And across an entire page the Express splashed a row of grinning British faces, exhorted: "GET THE MONDAY MORNING SMILE...
Continentals expect an Englishman to arrive on diplomatic missions with an odor of sanctity, and Prague was not surprised to read that before Lord Runciman left Cowes, where he had been yachting, he bowed his head in its Holy Trinity Church while the vicar intoned a prayer "for one who is about to go to Czechoslovakia...
...take sides in the Spanish War. At a recent General Congregation in Rome-the first meeting of the high command of the Society of Jesus since 1923-French Catholics believe that this Jesuit left wing predominated. Immensely secret, the Congregation revealed only that it had elected a Perpetual Vicar General for the order, to help the ailing General, Very Rev. Wlodimir Ledochowsky, with his manifold duties. The new Vicar General, a 37-year-old Belgian named Maurice Schurmans, was saluted by French Jesuits as an able antiFascist, of a neutral nation, who would help orient the policies of the Society...
...EATING ALLOWED" announced a sign tacked up last fortnight on the Anglican parish church in Kingston-on-Thames, near London. The Bishop of Stepney, invited to deliver the first of a series of lunch-hour talks organized by the vicar, Rev. T. B. Scruton, preached soberly to 200 people, half of them young white-collar workers, who munched apples, nuts, sandwiches, peppermints. Said a schoolteacher afterward, brushing off his crumbs: "I would not be here unless I were able to eat during the service...
Many a small church has to put up with the cacophony of an unskilled choir. From England last week came news of how Rev. V. B. Yearsley, vicar of Benenden in Kent, rigged up a phonograph with a volume control under his lectern, obtained a number of records of pieces which he instructed his unskilled choir to sing. Vicar Yearsley reported: "When my choir sings badly, I drown them by turning up the volume of a gramophone record-perhaps of Westminster Choir...