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293: ALL GAS AND GAITERS

(Obvious titular tribute to Derek Nimmo – Nota Bene!)

According to Steinmeyer’s biography (34-5), Fort’s first job on the Albany Argus was to interview ministers, whose names he fished out of the city Directory, “searching for ministers among housepainters, blacksmiths, widows.”

Having pinpointed peculiar Popes [], seems only fair to cast an eye on their Anglican oppos, belonging as they do to an institution founded by a royal libertine, dubbed by suffragette Maude Royden-Shaw (1917) “the Conservative Party at Prayer” and whose lax theology has prompted

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