Word: vicars
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Schoolmistress's Conquests. Headmistress Sparling met Barsetshire's chilliness with warmth and infinite tact. She sympathized with the demoted Beltons. She was gentle with absent-minded Vicar Oriol. She listened tolerantly to eccentric old Mrs. Updike's half-witted worries-such as how one would kill a chicken on a desert island ("The only thing I can think of would be to work myself . . . into a ... rage and stamp on its head"). She commiserated with Mrs. Hoare, whose daughter had married a Dutchman and borne nothing but girls ("It's something to do with Princess Juliana...
...Church's 861 pastors mounted their pulpits to announce their own resignations. With this magnificent declaration of independence, the pastors at one stroke set their church free, cut off their state-provided livelihoods, left themselves facing concentration camp or death. (One of them, Arne Thu. vicar of Vestby and veteran Indian missionary, died in a concentration camp at Grini last June after being forced to crawl hundreds of yards with his hands behind his back and a latrine bucket in his teeth, for the amusement of his quisling guards.) But all made clear that they would continue to carry...
...battle zones last week, some U.S. Catholic chaplains offered outdoor Masses in strange garb: khaki vestments tinted by camouflage experts. Altar cloths were also camouflaged. Reason for the change, effected by New York's Archbishop Francis J. Spellman, Roman Catholic Military Vicar of the U.S. Armed Services: the traditional white and brightly colored vestments draw fire from enemy planes...
William Heward Murray Walton, tall, lantern-jawed Church of England vicar, and old Japan hand (17 years), onetime editor of the Japanese Christian Quarterly, told a Church conference at Torquay, England that Japan "did more for the literacy education of her people in 60 years than the British in India in 150 years," blamed atrocities primarily on Japanese police who, he claimed, treated their own people the way they are now treating the enemy, admitted that he prayed daily for Japanese Christians, added: "I pray for victory-and the whopping defeat of Japan...
...months, the No. 1 spiritual adviser to Quebec's isolationist-minded millions had been very close to the war. As Military Vicar of all Roman Catholics in Canada's armed forces, His Eminence Jean Marie Rodrigue Cardinal Villeneuve had toured battlefronts, talked to fighting men of all ranks. Last week a big Lancaster brought him home...