Word: archbishop
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...President's luck was good. He often scooped in the chips when nobody called his raise. Whenever anybody won on an uncalled hand, the President invariably smiled and referred to it as "an Archbishop of Canterbury hand." He used the phrase often, but he would not explain...
...thinking it over, the Church of England decided to do something about the Table. Every Anglican prayerbook contains the Table of Kindred and Affinity*−"Wherein whosoever are related are forbidden in Scripture and our laws to marry together." These mari, tal prohibitions (drawn up in 1560 by Archbishop of Canterbury Matthew Parker) were based mainly on the famed sexual rules & regulations of Leviticus XVIII. Specifically, the Table banned marriage with brothers-and sisters-in-law, nephews and nieces...
...Since Archbishop Parker's day, many a good churchman has complained that the Table was outmoded. Year by year it began to look more oldfashioned. Some of the prohibited relationships now seem far from "incestuous and unlawful." But innovations take time. "He shall prick that annual blister, marriage with deceased wife's sister," was the musical complaint of the Fairy Queen of satirist W. S. Gilbert's lolanthe...
...Archbishop of Canterbury appointed a "Commission on Prohibited Degrees" which consulted such famed lay experts as Biochemist J. B. S. Haldane, Anthropologist Bronislaw Malinowski, Psychoanalyst Ernest Jones, finally recommended extensive relaxation of the Table. But nothing happened...
Died. Adolf Cardinal Bertram, 86, outspoken anti-Nazi Archbishop of Breslau and dean of the German Catholic hierarchy, whose tireless resistance to Hitler's "neopaganism" was climaxed last March in his defiance of orders to evacuate Breslau before the advancing Russians; presumably in Breslau. His death left the College of Cardinals with 40 members-fewest in 144 years...