Word: cohort
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Dates: during 1931-1931
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...dear to the Christian mind Whenever one of these cracks occurs there is "universal laughter", as they say in Parliamentary reports, and nobody laughs louder, with a more insistent shrillness, than the reverend or almost reverend graduates mentioned above. Already they seem to belong to that up end coming cohort of holy men who are brisk and virile at church doors, and who in their hearts find Jesus Christ all very well, but not so absorbing as Golf on week days. Comment is superfluous; all the same one is continually reminded of Dr. Johnson's dictum: "Sir, the merriment...