Word: vicar
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...North, the church has long been forced to pursue a modus vivendi with the Communists. As Vicar Apostolic of Hanoi since 1950, and archbishop since 1960, Trin presided over much of that accommodation. The job has its uncertainties. Said he after his investiture: "I hope that they believe me when I tell them that I did not know the reason for my call to Rome...
Cool Command. Born in 1887 in London's Kennington district where his father was vicar, he got his first taste of soldiering at the Royal Military College at Sandhurst and was almost expelled at one point for setting the shirt of a fellow cadet on fire. In World War I, after three years in India, he fought on the Marne and was badly wounded at Ypres. He emerged from the war at 30 a lieutenant colonel. By 1938, after more service in India and the Middle East, he was a major general. During the opening months of World...
...father. Two years later, a High Court judge reinforced this decision by issuing a certificate of legitimacy for Geoffrey. Not until after John Russell succeeded to his title as the third Baron Ampthill in 1935 did the redoubtable Christabel finally divorce him. He later married Adeline Hone, a vicar's daughter who bore the young John Russell...
...draft board in Oyster Bay, N.Y., the town where he grew up, to induct him during World War II; Loeb finally won his battle when he found a sympathetic Vermont doctor who helped him win a 4-F classification for ulcers. "Loeb is a bully," says Monsignor Philip Kenney, vicar of community affairs for the ManChester diocese. "A lot of people who have been duped by him should read this book." Adds former New Hampshire Governor Walter Peterson, whose teenage daughter suffered an emotional breakdown after Loeb vilified her for an innocent remark about marijuana use: "Kevin Cash has performed...
...woman who did more to affect Anglo-Irish history than any other 19th century female (Queen Victoria excepted) was born Katharine Wood, the daughter of an Anglican vicar. "Look lovely and keep your mouth shut," her brother advised her, voicing the wisdom of the age. At 22 she married a horsy, socially acceptable Irishman named Willie O'Shea, known chiefly for his velvet jackets and his passion for get-rich-quick schemes-sulfur mines in Spain, railroad lines in Zululand. Katharine settled down to the role of conformist motherhood. But one day in 1880, when...