Word: reverend
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Nazism and Communism were attributed to the spread of despair following the World War in a talk by the Reverend, Martin J. D'Arey on "Modern ideals," given before the St. Paul's Catholie Club last night...
...noted English Jesuit who was long connected with oxford University, the Reverend D'Arey claimed that a lasting peace could only he built on Christian foundations...
...Warm Springs: Budget Director Harold Smith, who talked about cutting non-military expenses; Mayor the Reverend Mr. Woodfin G. Harry, who made a speech; the Warm Springs Women's Club, which sang;* pretty, yellow-headed Patient Ann Smithers, age six, who won the right to sit at the President's table at the Thanksgiving dinner, gnawed a drumstick despite the fact that her baby teeth are falling out; the Georgia Congressional delegation, minus Senator George, who withstood the New Deal's purge. "There was no invitation for me to go," explained Senator George...
Nothing so infuriates a minister named Jones as being called "Reverend Jones." Reverend is an adjective, not a title. If a parson is not a doctor (D.D. or Ph.D.), he is, like other men, a mister.* Last week the Ministerial Association of Lansing, Mich, formally resolved that "in addressing one another, or in referring to one another in speech or in writing, we discard all titles except that of mister." Lansing's reverend misters hoped that their friends and the press would stop infuriating them...
...good usage "Reverend" is not found with only a last name after it. Incorrect: Reverend Jones. Correct: the Reverend Dr. Jones; the Reverend J. A. Jones; the Reverend Mr. James Aloysius Jones...