Word: chrysostom
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...worth $50,000 a year to us to have Jerry around just to hear him talk." In 1938, in a speech in Kansas City, he denounced fixed charges in favor of equity dividends. To make his point he invoked the following authorities: Aristotle, Lactantius, St. Luke, St. Basil, St. Chrysostom, St. Ambrose, St. Thomas Aquinas, Dante, Calvin, Cotton Mather, Andrew D. White, Chesterton, Will Rogers. Fond of parties, he holds his cigaret between his teeth, dominates the room with talk. Regularly he falls asleep at 10 p.m., wakes at 11:30, talking. A lover of word games, playful mental feats...
...Chicago has four "Gold Coast" churches-the Fourth Presbyterian, New England Congregational, St. James Episcopal, St. Chrysostom's Episcopal. The missionary Team united these for the first time in a community service...
...memorial service to the late Gum Man William Wrigley Jr. in Chicago's smart St. Chrysostom's last month was graced with ushers from Wrigley Baseball Field and a carillonneur who sweetly ding-donged Aloha Oe, the gum man's favorite tune. Rev. John Crippen Evans, associate rector of fashionable St. Chrysostom's, eulogized Mr. Wrigley thus: "He was a boy at 70, and that is a real achievement. It is in that sort of attainment that the Christian pulpit is primarily interested, because the message of the pulpit is wholly concerned with life-life that...
Accepted, By Rev. Dr. Stephen Edwards Keeler, rector of St. Chrysostom's Episcopal Church, famed for its Chicago socialite congregation (he succeeded Rt. Rev. Henry Pryor Almon Abbott, brother of Headmaster Mather Almon Abbott of Lawrenceville School, who is now Bishop of Lexington, Ky.); the call to be Bishop Coadjutor of the diocese of Minnesota, to which he was elected three weeks...
...dozen assembled for a dinner in the parish house of St. Chrysostom's Protestant Episcopal Church, at present Chicago's most fashionable. Host was John Crippen Evans, 40, assistant rector of St. Chrysostom's and religious editor of the Chicago Tribune. He had invited them to his cenacle in an "attempt to feel the pulse of young theological students...