Word: wolfs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stocky Rt. Rev. James Edward Freeman, Bishop of Washington. There would be a procession in which would march representatives of other sects and Episcopal Bishops Darst of East Carolina, Abbott of Lexington, Ky., Jett of Southwestern Virginia, Cook of Delaware, Rhinelander (retired) of Pennsylvania. Most Rev. James De Wolf Perry, Presiding Bishop of the Church, was to send as his representative Bishop Hugh Latimer Burleson of South Dakota. New York's small Bishop Manning agreed to come. An honorary canon of Washington Cathedral, he would preach later in the day. Eyeing the light, airy choir, Bishop Manning might reflect that...
...addition to the African Room, is exceptionally good specimen of an African wart hog. The collection in the South American Room has been augmented by the acquisition of two new animals. One of these the Blackmaned Red Wolf is a very rare species inhabiting South America, or more exactly Uraguay, where this was captured. The other is a Capybrara, another rare animal found in South America and the largest existing member of the rodent family...
...GLASTONBURY ROMANCE-John Cowper Powys-Simon & Schuster ($3.75). In spite of the considerable success of his two-volume novel Wolf Solent, in spite of Critic H. L. Mencken's dictum that no two-volume novel ever failed, Author Powys confines the 1,174 pages of his latest fanciful vignette within the covers of a single book. Hard on the reader's wrist, its insistent author's perverse philosophizing is liable to be hard on many a reader's patience too. "Folks 'ud rayther brew their own broth theyselves then...
Proceeding with all haste to the scene of conflagration the Vagabond was delighted to discover that the De Wolf Street "shambles" were being consumed by flames. The gilded unemployed were pouring from their crested mansions while their professional colleagues moved en masse across from their habitual hang-out on the opposite corner. The Vagabond squirmed with delight as a Harvard man struck a match in the friendliest manner and offered his extracurricular acquaintance a light. The act was positively democratic and bristling with bolshevist implications...
Presiding Bishop James De Wolf Perry began the move for voluntary retrenchments last week by pruning his $15,000 salary 10%. He has a rich wife, an independent income. New York's small Bishop William Thomas Manning, who also has a rich wife, a fine Bishop's Palace, a salary of $15,000 and a $5,000 "discretionary fund," followed suit. In response to an emergency call for retrenchment from Bishop Perry, Massachusetts was the first diocese to act as a unit in salary cuts. Bishop Henry Knox Sherrill. who gets $15,000 per year, joined with...