Word: anglicans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Tanner for five secret days carefully, gently and awfully measure each & every princely bone. They photograph them, wrap them in finest lawn. Dean Norris replaces the bones in the urn with a statement on parchment of what has been done in June 1933. The Dean reads part of the Anglican burial service. The urn is resealed and replaced in its niche in Westminster Abbey. King George gets a confidential report, which he permits Anatomist Wright and Muniment-Keeper Tanner to reveal...
...Episcopalians engage in much the same sort of intramural wars as their brothers in England. But because the Anglican Church is an arm of the State, its affairs cause wider repercussions. Only in England could laymen become as excited as they did last week over a second church quarrel, one which involved the English Church Union. A venerable body, long considered high church, the Union has been headed by 94-year-old Charles Lindley Wood, 2nd Viscount Halifax, a stout Anglo-Catholic who from 1863 to 1877 was Groom of the Bedchamber to the Prince of Wales. Last week Viscount...
Died. John Alexander Machray, 68, embezzler, sometime bursar and board chairman of the University of Manitoba, sometime chancellor of the Anglican diocese of Rupert's Land; of cancer; in Stony Mountain Penitentiary, Manitoba. He was a famed lawyer and member of a distinguished family ("a Machray can do no wrong'") when huge shortages were turned up last year in the trust and endowment funds of his church and university. He pleaded guilty to stealing $500,000 from the university, $60,000 from a onetime law partner, was given a seven-year sentence by a magistrate who had been...
...elegant impracticability. The simple graciousness of the life he could not deny, but it seemed to him also profoundly futile. He seems, however, to have concealed this opinion from the President and allowed him to talk unchallenged of how Harvard had achieved the ultimate purification and refinement of the Anglican culture, that blend of classicism and refined Christianity, with a graceful monarchist devotion...
...externals distinguish a Church of England bishop from a U. S. Episcopal bishop. For outdoor wear the Church of England bishop affects long gaiters of snug black broadcloth. He is ranked a Lord and so addressed by his flock. But these distinctions have lately seemed irksome to Anglican clergymen. During the Oxford Movement centenary (TIME, July 17). the Bishop of Kensington complained of his gaiters, crying that "100 years have failed to provide us a sensible costume." And last week the Bishop of Bristol told his congregation to cease calling him "My Lord." Declared he: "In the old days, when...