Word: blunder
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Blunder...
...howler" comparable almost to any high school product. In TIME, Oct. 5, Page 36, Column 3, we are confidently told that legislation is proposed to admit deaconesses to the priesthood. In other words, women are to be given Holy Orders in the Episcopal Church. A most egregious blunder. In the first place, a deaconess is not in Holy Orders as a deacon is, and is not "ordained" to her office or function but is "set apart." In the Episcopal Church there are but three orders of Ministers-Bishops, Priests, Deacons-and these are confined to male persons...
...Brusque comedy with a shaven neck wherein two prizefighters blunder into a luxurious household; marry the servants, and win the lightweight championship of the world...
...pomp of authority often conceals its very human fallibilities, which remain to be pointed out by following generations. And in no field is authority so liable to blunder as in that of moral distinction. Each generation has corrected and even reversed the standards of obscenity and beauty which its predecessors respected. The constant modification of moral critoria should teach the postal authorities that they cannot be too cautious of hasty and outright condemnation...
Last week, came acknowledgment of blunder, speedy reforms, promises of more, assurances that the change of the Government's policy was "meant seriously and for a long period." Under the Newest Economic Policy, private capitalists will enjoy the same privilege as Government monopolies, trusts and cooperatives. Bolshevik banks will extend credit, taxes will be lowered, private property restored. Practically all administrative and economic pressure on internal trade was removed...