Word: vicars
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
That night in the Los Angeles Coliseum, Poole witnesses the rites of "purification" of Belial Eve and the beginning of the mating season at California's biggest celebration: Belial Day. "His Eminence, the Arch-Vicar of Belial, Lord of the Earth, Primate of California, Servant of the Proletariat, Bishop of Hollywood," explains to Poole that the triumph of his lord was assured by the rise of two doctrines during the pre-atom era: "Progress and Nationalism . . . the theory that Utopia lies just ahead and that, since ideal ends justify the most abominable means, it is your privilege and duty...
...weeks the Chief and the Arch-Vicar encourage the most indiscriminate promiscuity so that the state may gain manpower; afterwards, when the helots are put to work, all sexual contact is strictly forbidden. Poole is urged to join the California priesthood, which can be done by submitting to an operation that will forever remove potency. But in the meantime Poole has discovered a luscious vessel named Loola, who has taught him a few things. Preferring Loola to eunuch lordship, Poole escapes from Los Angeles towards a lonely northern outpost where, it is rumored, men are still...