Word: rev
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...EATING ALLOWED" announced a sign tacked up last fortnight on the Anglican parish church in Kingston-on-Thames, near London. The Bishop of Stepney, invited to deliver the first of a series of lunch-hour talks organized by the vicar, Rev. T. B. Scruton, preached soberly to 200 people, half of them young white-collar workers, who munched apples, nuts, sandwiches, peppermints. Said a schoolteacher afterward, brushing off his crumbs: "I would not be here unless I were able to eat during the service...
...backed by rich Methodist Miller Joseph Rank (TIME, Feb. 14). By last week, 200 British churches had been equipped for sound pictures, new installations were being made at the rate of one or two a day. To familiar objections against such "pill-sugaring," an executive of the Film Society, Rev. Stanley M. Edwards, replied: "If the pill does a good work, why not have it sugared...
Hissed, heckled, and occasionally cheered during a speech sponsored by Harvard University's Young Conservatives last week, Rev. Gerald L. K. ("Share the Wealth") Smith, erstwhile spiritual adviser to the late Senator Huey P. Long, declared that "rabble-rousing is needed to bring the country out of chaos," urged that "a chair of rabble-rousing" be established at Harvard...
...Methodist Church has been on record against patronizing hotels where racial discrimination is practiced. Last February, however, when the United Methodist Council on the Future of Faith & Service met in Chicago's big (3,000-room) Stevens Hotel one of its speakers had trouble. He was the Rev. Karl E. Downs, A. B. (Samuel Houston College), B. D. (Gammon Theological Seminary), M. S. T. (Boston University School of Theology), a 26-year-old Pasadena Negro who had been invited to speak to the conference on behalf of "Methodist Youth." Last week in Zion's Herald, venerable Boston Methodist...
...past summer, poor Oscar passed to his doom. I wonder if you could help me find some Harvard student to accompany me on my spring tour to replace poor Oscar, as I have heard on good information that Harvard students are possessed with the devil of drink. Hopefully yours, Rev. Jonah M. Wilde...