Word: vicar
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...handsome young Jew named Saul of Tarsus was aiding & abetting the mob murder of another handsome youth named Stephen. All this was happening last week in the stories and cartoon strips of the spanking new London weekly Eagle, dazzlingly successful magazine brain child of a boyish, 35-year-old vicar of the Church of England...
...Glasgow, the Conservatives' handsome Anthony Eden alternately beamed and looked embarrassed as 2,800 Scots serenaded: "Will Ye No' Come Back Again?" Back in his own Warwickshire, Eden spoke before 35 rubber-booted farmers, their wives and a white-haired vicar. Eden dawdled with his water glass, pleasantly twitted his women hearers. "Some of you ask for very naughty things," he said, "like extra petrol coupons." Two women giggled. One red-haired farm wife remained uncharmed. "For all his good looks," she whispered to her husband, "I'll still...
...easy matter to decide. The world's oldest profession could claim a long and proud history in Italy. Romulus and Remus, the brothers who founded Rome, it was said, were themselves the bastards of a vestal virgin who yielded to Mars for a consideration. In 1490 a city vicar reported to the Vatican that Rome's prostitutes numbered more than "6,800, not even counting those who live in concubinage and those who, not publicly but in secret, maintain five or six women in their houses." Sixtus V (1585-90) wanted to abolish prostitution, but he was dissuaded...
...father and mother when he was a high-school boy, took his training for the ministry at the University of the South in Sewanee, Tenn. A forceful preacher, an energetic administrator and a precise theologian, he was called from a pastorate in Nashville, Tenn. in 1903 to be vicar of St. Agnes' Chapel in Manhattan's Trinity parish. Five years later, Dr. Manning became rector of Trinity Church and thus head of the wealthiest Episcopal parish in the U.S. At his desk and in the pulpit, he proved to be a good choice for the job: during...
...parish church in the Yorkshire town of Bolton upon Dearne is built on foundations which date back some 900 years. The Rev. Donald Carr Sparks has been vicar there for only ten years. But to Vicar Sparks the church's drab interior and plain, pitch-pine pews seemed "very institutional." Last week, the parishioners of Bolton upon Dearne were doggedly trying out a brave new ecclesiastical color scheme-red (pews), white (walls) and blue (doors). "The whole idea," Vicar Sparks explained, "is to bring color and warmth to the church without making it gaudy...