Word: clerical
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After the last shipboard game, he told a story. Two Londoners, he said, had been arguing about a passing cleric. Said one: "I say he's the Archbishop of Canterbury. I can see his gaiters." Said the other: "He's not." To settle a bet, the passerby was hailed, asked his identity. Staring stonily over his high collar, the cleric replied : "It's none of your damned business who I am." So, the President grinned, they never knew-just like the suckers who do not call a poker hand...
...along the street were Irish or Polish Roman Catholics, and they took no interest in its services. But they often heard the organ wheezing away and saw clergymen piously coming & going-there was Father Raymond Norman, and Father Lyman Appleby, and Archbishop William F. Tyarks, a bony and ancient cleric. They all belonged to something called the American Catholic Orthodox Church. Everybody knew they Were not Roman Catholics-Mrs. Fitzgerald, who lived in a flat over the Mission, reported that they ate baloney last Ash Wednesday. But nobody minded that...
Thirty chaplains were on duty during the Mexican War, a new high in numbers for the corps. This record was soon surpassed, however, as one cleric was appointed to each infantry regiment during the Civil War. After the War between the States, some of the chaplains were assigned to permanent positions at Army forts and posts. In 1867, a bill of major importance was passed in Congress which put the chaplains on an equal footing with other commissioned officers...
...provosts ( Avonian for headmaster), to one of whom she had been led by consulting a classified telephone directory, quit after rows. Once the bulk of the faculty followed progressive Provost Francis Mitchell Froelicher to Colorado's Fountain Valley School. Last week Provost W. Brooke Stabler, an Episcopal cleric who formerly preached and taught at the University of Pennsylvania, decided to take the headmastership of Michigan's Cranbook School. He and Mrs. Riddle were incommunicado. Faculty members were not talking about Avon's closing...
Next the young man encounters an orating windbag, Mr. Speakeasy, M.P., whose booming platitudes about freedom from want fail to interest the pensive soldier. He is also unmoved by the frenzied screechings of Mr. Escapegoat, the diplomat, and the Rev. Hateman, the cleric, who unite in a Vansittart diatribe about German savagery and sing a duet: "The Germans are not the Herrenvolk. We are the Herrenvolk...