Word: vicars
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...roly-poly, rubicund Anglican vicar named R. Anderson Jardine felt an urgent spiritual call. In defiance of the Archbishop of Canterbury he married the Duke of Windsor and Mrs. Wallis Warfield. Later he turned up in Hollywood, earned a living by marrying romantic couples who wanted to be wed by the man who had married the Duke and Wally...
Perversely Anglophile as ever, Ouseley-Gogarty leaves De Valera's Ireland to visit his old friend, the vicar of Mea Culpa at Waltham Whirling on the Thames. He discovers the vicar's niece Parmenis, who is as rude as she is beautiful. He reminisces about undergraduate roistering at Oxford; the result is a fair example of the unresting Gogarty wit and the chief Gogarty interest: "I could not help recalling the scene, near midnight one long-vanished summer, between the bridges of the canal behind the college, the silhouetted bowler hats of the proctors converging from each side...
...down. There was fixed for their natural needs a corner of the stable, and a priest, Casimir Stepczynski, parish priest of Bydgoszcz, was forced together with a Jew to carry away with his hands human excrement-work which was fatiguing due to the great number of prisoners. The vicar, Adam Musial, who wanted to aid the venerable priest, was brutally beaten with a rifle butt...
...Piccadilly provost marshal remanded to Bow Street one Rev. Maurice Kenal Exham, 71, former Dorset vicar, for "wearing a military uniform calculated falsely to suggest that he was an Army captain." Quick was the vicar to explain: 1) the family of his 12th-Century ancestor, Sir Richard Exham, had been granted the right to wear military uniform "in perpetuity" by Henry II for aid in the Irish troubles; 2) the right had never been abrogated...
...enemy in, under and over the sea by loosing fierce falcons from Britain's headlands, is as jealously proud of his command as he is adamant in his demands upon it. His men have flown more than five million miles since war began. They call him "The Vicar of Western Europe" and he calls his domain "My Parish." It extends from 1,000 miles west in the Atlantic to Helgoland Bight and Sylt and from Gibraltar to Arctic ice. So exacting is he about evidence from his pilots for their exploits that one of them lately whined: "Pretty soon...