Word: vicar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...joke, in early 19th Century England, to be the eldest daughter of a poor Yorkshire vicar. Not even for a girl as lively, as pretty, as independent, as good and as beautiful as Arabella Tallant. Naturally she wanted to marry none of her awkward provincial suitors, so Mamma hustled her off to her wealthy London godmother who undertook to find Bella a rich husband. When the coach broke down on the way, Bella sought shelter at the nearest house, which turned out to be the country home of Mr. Robert Beaumaris, the handsomest, the most polished, the most excitingly built...
...British newspapers have stirred themselves into a small uproar over pictorial representations of Christ. When the Rev. George B. Chambers, vicar of Carbrooke Church in Norfolk, undertook a journey to Bulgaria to witness the Protestant pastors' trial (TIME, March 7), the tabloid Daily Mirror indignantly published a picture of the crucifix which Vicar Chambers commissioned in 1935-Young Christ Triumphant (see cut). Vicar Chambers was as undisturbed about the crucifix as he had been about the Bulgarian trials. "The hammer & sickle are Christian symbols," he explained...
...hunted fox scream in my life," snorted Captain George Percival Williams, Master of the Four Burrow Hunt. Captain Williams stoutly denied that the fox was alive when the hounds touched it. "I was blowing my horn and everybody was making a devil of a row." Then he sued the vicar for libel. In court, Mr. Craven-Sands apologized to Captain Williams; he said that he had been wrong in believing that the fox was alive when thrown to the hounds. Mr. Gilbert Beyfus, counsel for Captain Williams, said to the jury: "Let your verdict be a strong...
...vicar wrote to the Daily Herald: "I hardly expected to find half a hundred gaily attired men & women enjoying a display of such revolting cruelty." His letter said that the huntsmen had wantonly dug the fox out of its earth and tossed it "into the midst of a score of yelping hounds, who tugged at it to the accompaniment of its agonized screams." It gave, he added, "a frightful impression of bloodlust...
...They will wear tweeds, and bring prayers into sport clubs and discuss religion with those who usually by-pass the church," said Bishop Aulén, who commented on the fact that Vicar Norby of Nacka, who has held the Swedish shot-put record, boasts some of the largest congregations in Sweden...