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...Lent," said Dr. Steele, "as now conceived, has come to be, for one group of Protestants, largely of Episcopalians to be sure, nothing but a joke; to another group, it is an intolerable bore." Dr. Steele calculated that in Philadelphia's Episcopal churches alone, extra Lenten service required 10,000 hours. Summed up Philadelphia's sharpest pulpiteer...
...Cape country Author Harriss writes about was a fox country. Bears still snuffled through the woods, and otter and coon and deer were plentiful, but the only enemy foxes had to fear was man. In the swamp where the Vixen bore her litter lived one of them, an Indian trapper. No sport, he killed for his living. But he accounted for fewer foxes than the local hunt, whose master was the hard-drinking widower Cap'n, squire of a plantation falling to seed almost as swiftly as himself. Of the Vixen's litter, two died in traps...
...Barrymore mansion, Bella Vista, on a bleak crest over Beverly Hills, taking her place among the Barrymore trophies of field & stream, the Barrymore whimsicalities and the Barrymore dinosaur egg obtained from Roy Chapman Andrews. She laughed at her husband's epigrams, tolerated his sycophants, condoned his escapades, bore him Dolores (5), John...
...National Surety Co.. awash with $45,000,000 worth of guaranteed real estate mortgage bonds, went into the hands of George S. Van Schaick, at that time New York State Superintendent of Insurance. The Company was then succeeded by the Corporation. Directors & management of the Corporation bore a strong resemblance to directors & management of the Company,* but the Corporation abandoned the business of guaranteeing mortgage bonds and bank deposits, went back to its original fidelity and surety business. Holders of mortgage bonds guaranteed by the Company yelled loud & long, since the guaranteed bonds were not taken over as liabilities...
...readers who have followed Vardis Fisher to this fourth and final volume of his autobiographical novel, his hero's complete candor in showing himself at times a stubborn fool, a dreary bore, a nearly crazy introspect, will end by impressing them with his struggle for honesty. In the earlier books his wrestling to be free from his Nessus' shirt was more painful to watch than not. Now that he has got it mostly off, the scarified body shows sturdy if not beautiful...