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...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...
...shape. The familiar names of Chuck Hoelzer, Tommy Woods, Larry Ward, and Joe Fox highlight the possible lineup for the 300-yd. medley relay. But there is more depth in the relays this season than could be mustered last year, and Norm Watkins, Paul Killoran, and Jim Mac-Vicar are also possibilities in the freestyle division of the relays...
...have always regarded a good innkeeper as a real benefactor to the community," wrote the Rev. E. A. Newman, vicar of Hythe in Kent, in his parish paper, "and a well-run inn ... as a useful and necessary amenity. I suppose it is true to say that all through our history the two chief meeting places of the community have been the church and the inn. Indeed there should not be antagonism between them, and it is foolish narrow-mindedness that makes people think a pub to be a wicked place. Its purpose is to encourage fellowship and happiness, surely...
...Animals and birds are a part of God's Creation," said Vicar Snell. With daring definiteness, he added: "There are animals and birds in Heaven as well as human beings and angels." But animals, like men, he said, would have to be good to attain eternal life. On the way out, a mastiff lunged at a basket of kittens. As it turned out, he only wanted to lick them, not bite them...