Word: chelmsford
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When he came out of hiding, he applied to the Bishop of Chelmsford, the Right Rev. H. A. Wilson, for readmission into the Church of England. Witcutt did not have to be ordained-the Church of England recognizes his Catholic orders. Last Sunday he was among the worshipers at East London's Church of St. Mary Magdalene-with-St. Bartholomew, where he has been appointed curate...
London fog, source of endless inspiration to cinema scriptwriters, is just a headache to season-ticket-holders (British for commuters). On the 20 to 40 days each winter when visibility falls below 200 yards, the Reading, Chelmsford and Maidstone trains creep along at 30 m.p.h., often wait 20 minutes at junctions, reach London as much as two hours late. Last week British railway technicians were hard at work trying to do something about fog-foundered trains. They had two novel gadgets, both still in the experimental stage, which might make it possible for trains to keep up their usual clip...
Westminster's warning chimed with the joint statement recently given by the Archbishops of Canterbury and York (TIME, Nov. 1, 1943). Last week still another prelate chimed in. In Chelmsford, Anglican Bishop Henry Albert Wilson found "the landslide in sexual morals" so immense that he feared Christianity "is hanging by a thread in this country to-day." What particularly upset Bishop Wilson was a proposed Government measure which would permit magistrates' courts to handle divorce cases, now reserved for higher courts...
...bombs and "ack ack" (signaling lingo for A. A. - antiaircraft) was almost unbearable, though the defense barrage was comforting. It was also expensive - ?250,000 nightly - and brought down only 3% to 5% of bagged planes. The siren was a nerve-tearing noise. Dr. Henry Albert Wilson, Bishop of Chelmsford, was dead in earnest when he wrote: "I suggest a gay cockadoodle-doo repeated half a dozen times would be in the nature of a whistle to keep our courage up instead of a dole ful wail which depresses all but the most stouthearted...