Word: vicars
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Nonsense," says the Vicar of Tewkesbury...
Brothers to Christ's Vicar. This week the cardinals-designate, who in their persons bear witness to the imperial sweep of the Church of Rome, reached the Holy City for the ceremonies that would make them not only princes of the Church, but brothers and counsellors to the man they look upon as Christ's Vicar on Earth. They came as pilgrims, but for some the pilgrimage was at 20th-century speed...
...this working example of Christian unity, the vicar-minister said last week: "I can think of the whole community . . . and not feel that I'm poaching someone else's ground." Said Episcopal Bishop William Appleton Lawrence, father of the Ashfield project: "I heartily approve and enthusiastically endorse. . . . It's a good idea and significant in finding a solution to the problem of overchurched communities...
Dome of Many Colored Glass. These ghostly skylarkings merely carry to the point of caricature the lovingly-labored transformation of Shelley from flaming infidel to versifying vicar at which Author Smith & Others* tilt grimly in The Shelley Legend. The "Shelley Legend," they say, "is a term used to characterize fallacious views about the life of Shelley and his writings which have grown up principally under the careful supervision first of Mary Shelley [Shelley's second wife], and after her death, in 1851, of Lady Shelley, wife of the poet's son, Sir Percy Florence Shelley." The authors...
...neighborhood toughs greeted the new vicar of St. Luke's Episcopal Chapel with sneering hostility. They tried to frighten him off the sidewalks with raucous taunts about his celibacy. They hooted at the black cassock and big wooden cross he always wore as a member of the Society of Oblates of Mount Calvary. They sneaked into the parish house when his back was turned and smashed up the furniture. But tall, handsome Reverend Edward Henry Schlueter (rhymes with Peter) kept his stubborn smile and quietly got on with the job: bringing back to life his broken-down appendage...