Word: wolfing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ordinary bishop's cope (bell-shaped cape of stiffened fabric) costs about $100; a fancy, jeweled one at least $5,000. Presiding Bishop James De Wolf Perry had his cope packed and shipped to Philadelphia in a case big enough for a piano; also his mitre of gold lace and jewels. Bishop Perry followed along, unmindful of alarums raised by his church's Protestant "gadfly," Dr. Alexander Griswold Cummins of Poughkeepsie, N. Y. (TIME, Oct. 30). Bishop Perry insisted that he represented the whole Episcopal Church and would continue...
...suffragan to New York's high-church Bishop Manning, Dr. Cummins announced he would be "errand boy" to no bishop (TIME, May 19, 1930). "Gadfly" Cummins has long sought to introduce "referendum and recall" in the Episcopal Church, currently aiming his proposal against Presiding Bishop James De Wolf Perry. In the early days of The Chronicle, Editor Cummins fought soberly and solemnly. He now fights with satire and whimsy, aided by his literary wife, Evelyn Atwater, whom he married 18 years ago. Most Episcopalians are unsympathetic with Dr. Cummins' notions, unimpressed by the horrors he cries...
Sudden approach of many close football games leaves poor prognosticator panting in wake like Big Bad Wolf that tried to blow down Little Pig's house. Like Wolf color finally turns to purple as poor, panting prognosticator contemplates Holy Cross. Ignorant people say Holy Cross will Reiss to the occasion and Crusader's Notre Dame system will lead them out of the Woods, but greater knowledge reveals their attack will be Britt-le. Harvard will run round Purple ends till Sheehands outpoints with final score 20-13 for Crimson...
Guards in the State Penitentiary at Joliet, Ill. had to carry two murderers named Sullivan and Scott to solitary confinement when, too drunk to walk, they bellowed "Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?" in a cellhouse. Present but sober were Murderers Nathan Leopold, prison librarian, and Richard Loeb, who conducts a correspondence school for convicts. They said they had "just dropped in." were excused...
...have heard it hummed on the subway, in class. The radio has tried to murder it, with no success. With out any doubt. "Three Little Pigs," with its delightfully humorous song "Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf" is the best cartoon film that Walt Disney has created...