Word: wands
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lincolnshire grocer last week became one of the top dignitaries in the Church of England. Nominated by King George VI to be Bishop of London* was popular, friendly Right Rev. John William Charles Wand, 60, Bishop of Bath & Wells (TIME, Sept...
High Churchman Wand will bring to his new job both scholarship and a firsthand knowledge of a clergyman's daily grind. London will also have a Bishop who speaks his mind. Sample: "If we wish to reform the nation, we must begin at the top with statesmen and politicians. I would like to see us governed by a government truly democratic . . . there should be an end to this outside government where the Prime Minister and his ministers go to Parliament with their minds already made up for them by outside influences...
Rugged, cleft-chinned Bishop Wand was a brilliant student at Oxford (he took a first-class in theology) and a chaplain in World War I. For eleven years, he was a tutor at Sarum Theological College; then he was recalled to Oxford as dean of Oriel College. In 1934, he became Archbishop of Brisbane...
...Bishop Wand's new post is sure to please sport-minded Anglicans. Onetime president of the Queensland Soccer Association, he expects to take an active interest in the Fulham Football Club-"if I am asked." In Brisbane, he once created a sensation by announcing that he had no objection to Sunday sports-providing that church was attended too. Said he: "If it is a sin to play games on Sunday, I am a sinner...
...Wand & Club. Readers who expect The Blue Danube to be a replica of Author Bemelmans' earlier, inimitable works, My War with the United States (TIME, July 5, 1937), The Donkey Inside (TIME, Jan. 20, 1941) and I Love You, I Love You, I Love You (TIME, Sept. 14, 1942), will be disappointed. In its 153 pages they will find the usual bitter-sweet taste and tragicomic personalities-freakish but heartwarming outcasts; birds and animals with the attractiveness of charming children; the waiters scurrying to & fro with black bread, liverwurst and seidels of foaming beer; chestnut and willow trees; nostalgia...