Word: admitting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...appear in any church. But like the horseless carriage, divorce has since become such a commonplace (16 out of every 100 U. S. marriages) that U. S. churches have changed their tune. Few officially allow their ministers to remarry divorced persons (save innocent parties in divorces for adultery) or admit them to Communion after remarriage. Unofficially, many U. S. churches allow both. Last week the relatively small (1,900,000 members) but influential Protestant Episcopal Church, which in law and practice has been among the strictest, made ready to reconsider its stand. The church's Commission on Marriage...
...were not surprised that most of their school's 250 seats were still empty the first week. But they expected that pupils would find the school such fun that it would soon be filled. Expensive to run, the School for Crippled Children is free to Denver children, will admit out-of-town pupils for $300 a year...
Visitors who crowded the Beaux-Arts Gallery had to admit that Portugal, during its peak century and a half, had been almost as good at painting as it was at exploring. Connoisseurs found these primitives strongly influenced by the Flemish school founded about 1410 by famed Painter Hubert van Eyck. Some of the early Portuguese masters, like Nuno Gonçalves and Cristóvão de Figueiredo, were subtle portraitists who could have swapped paint brushes & pallettes with all but the best of the Flemish painters. But the Portuguese types por trayed, the thinner paint on the canvases...
...tell all that is going on in Washington at the Congressional hearings on the draft bill? Why not disclose that Army leaders admit they have been getting more than their quota on a voluntary three-year enlistment and have a waiting list? Why not tell that the compromise suggests instead the proposal to give young men a chance to volunteer on a one-year basis at $30 a month instead of the present $21 and three-year enlistment? Why not bring out that the Gallup Poll, which you use as an argument for conscription, did not get the poll...
Touring first-aid posts and other stations were the Taverners, a first-rate amateur company which used to play in pubs, giving plays by Shaw, Clifford Bax, Ivor Brown. Soon to open as the Uniform Theatre is the Garrick on Charing Cross Road, which will admit the boy or girl friend of all war workers. Encouraging theatre attendance in Brighton and Ports mouth is a rule: those who have ticket stubs for cinema or theatre are exempt from the curfew...