Word: coffining
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...Henry Sloane Coffin, Presbyterian president of Union Theological Seminary, had been invited with other eminent Protestants to preach in the Church of the Ascension, one of Bishop Manning's charges. Last year Bishop Manning sternly forbade Dr. Coffin's performance of a communion service in another Manhattan Episcopal church, as ecclesiastically illegal. Dr. Coffin replied by inviting the Episcopalians to his own communion service at Union Theological. Last week he answered Bishop Manning by rescinding his assent to preach in the Church of the Ascension. His comment: "In view of Bishop Manning's sermon and the subsequent discussion, it seemed...
...your bold and frank statement of a situation which has been repeated at several Legion Conventions that I know of all in fact. Of course you fellows are not "patriotic" and your injudicious statement may mean a good "jacking up" but it is worth it. G. T. Coffin. Webster...
Died. Hans Herzl, 40, son of the late political Zionist, Theodor Herzl; at Bordeaux; by shooting himself, immediately after the funeral of his sister Paulina, in whose coffin, "where there is plenty of space for both," he wished to be buried. In effort to escape being merely his father's son he became in turn a Baptist, a Roman Catholic, again a Jew. Before suicide he wrote: "My situation is that of a dead man. When God wants to destroy a person he first converts him into...
...General Uriburu's khaki pocket. Within 30 minutes Argentina's "Pink House" was overrun by a merry mob. Portraits of Dr. Irigoyen were hurled from the windows, burned. Two busts of him were dragged forth, one decapitated, the other paraded through the streets in a coffin with the placard: "He's finished...
...heart attack during the suspense of waiting for the Duchess of York to give birth to a possible heir to the Throne. Britain was oblivious but tears glistened in the Earl of Strathmore's eyes as his servant was laid away in the castle grounds. On the coffin was a huge wreath of red and white roses from the Duke & Duchess of York...