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The improbable life of 'The Pinching Padre', a vicar with a thirst for adventure and theft
He's a curious combination of greatness and ordinariness.
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The improbable life of 'The Pinching Padre', a vicar with a thirst for adventure and theft
And I guess the first half of his life or the first two thirds exhibits that greatness.
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The improbable life of 'The Pinching Padre', a vicar with a thirst for adventure and theft
But his children who were born in later life saw the quiet, mediocre side and couldn't understand the great.
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The improbable life of 'The Pinching Padre', a vicar with a thirst for adventure and theft
Well, Dexter was kind of the opposite of what you'd expect out of an Anglican clergyman.
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The improbable life of 'The Pinching Padre', a vicar with a thirst for adventure and theft
Everyone said so.
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The improbable life of 'The Pinching Padre', a vicar with a thirst for adventure and theft
His children said so.
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The improbable life of 'The Pinching Padre', a vicar with a thirst for adventure and theft
He's the most unlikely Anglican clergyman you could come across.
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The improbable life of 'The Pinching Padre', a vicar with a thirst for adventure and theft
His seafaring background, his Northern English origins, meant that he didn't fit the stereotype of the polished, Oxbridge-educated Anglican clergyman.
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The improbable life of 'The Pinching Padre', a vicar with a thirst for adventure and theft
And, of course, Bean's father was an Anglican clergyman, a scholar, and Dexter was about as far removed from that as possible, and Bean kind of thought he was too vulgar.
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The improbable life of 'The Pinching Padre', a vicar with a thirst for adventure and theft
Yeah, I guess so, and it's so ironic in Bean, who was the champion of the bush Australian and the roughness.
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The improbable life of 'The Pinching Padre', a vicar with a thirst for adventure and theft
I mean, his history is a pin of praise to that image, yet up close and personal, he couldn't shake his background.
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The improbable life of 'The Pinching Padre', a vicar with a thirst for adventure and theft
He got it because of his extraordinary talent for acquiring, was the word he used, acquiring things that his men needed.
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The improbable life of 'The Pinching Padre', a vicar with a thirst for adventure and theft
Now, armies are marvels of logistics in getting the right thing to the right place at the right time.
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The improbable life of 'The Pinching Padre', a vicar with a thirst for adventure and theft
On the big scale, but on the smaller scale, they often fail their men terribly.
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The improbable life of 'The Pinching Padre', a vicar with a thirst for adventure and theft
And the chaplains, particularly Dexter, was adept at...
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The improbable life of 'The Pinching Padre', a vicar with a thirst for adventure and theft
at getting stuff.
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The improbable life of 'The Pinching Padre', a vicar with a thirst for adventure and theft
I mean, the staff at 1st Anzac Corps joked that he could go out in the morning in his shirts and shorts and come back in the evening with enough to supply an entire Army Corps.
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The improbable life of 'The Pinching Padre', a vicar with a thirst for adventure and theft
So, yeah, he just had this knack for pinching.