Word: episcopalian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Pious Philadelphia is the home of an Episcopalian whose church, St. Luke & The Epiphany, is best known as "Dr. Steele's Church." A onetime mathematics teacher, Rev. Dr. David McConnell Steele, 62, three years ago resigned as active rector of St. Luke & The Epiphany after nearly 20 years service in one of the richest parishes in the diocese. However, Dr. Steele is still Rector Emeritus and he is still in active charge of an active mind...
Significance. Episcopalian Stone took words out of the mouths of his critics when he called his C. L. I. D. an unofficial minority. He might have anticipated more criticism if he had damned the American League Against War & Fascism as "Communist." Actually, with two Communists (Earl Browder, Clarence Hatha way) on its board of 15, A. L. A. W. F. is a varicolored united front organization em bracing Socialists, Liberals and Pinkos. Redbaiters make much of the fact that Communists publicly approve A. L. A. W. F. The U. S. Communist Party donated $100 to its last convention...
...bigoted, self-centered, stern old Puritan" is said to be confirmed by the fact that in later life "he cut off his tence, the artist, Donald Kirby, is "synthesizing" his features from available scraps of information regarding his only daughter without a penny because she had married an Episcopalian...
Born and half-bred an Episcopalian (he taught Sunday School, went to church every day in Lent), Upton Sinclair soon graduated into a more intense life as a puritan in Greenwich Village. Readers accustomed to his calves-foot-jelly style may raise an eyebrow when he says that he still has the cadences of the New Testament and the prayer-book running through his head, judges his own sentences by that echo. An optimist from the word go - enemies say he even jumped the gun - Author Sinclair early joined battle with his life-long foe, Determinism. Xo philosopher nor theologian...
...Frances Frost-Farrar & Rinehart ($2.50). Poet Frost's first novel lavishly embroiders the now familiar theme that in the countryside every prospect pleases and only man is vile. THE WHOLE WORLD & COMPANY-Gretchen Green-John Day-Reynal & Hitchcock ($3). A scrapbook autobiography by the peripatetic daughter of an Episcopalian clergyman...