Word: canon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Reverened Canon James S. Bezzant, Chancellor of Liverpool Cathedral, will speak on "Concerning God" in Memorial Church at 8 o'clock tonight...
...Miss Royden will now talk." A pioneer suffragist, Socialist sister of Shipping Tycoon Sir Thomas Royden, she was launched as an active pulpiteer by Dr. Joseph Fort Newton, who in 1917 made her his assistant at London's City Temple, "Cathedral of British Nonconformity." With Canon Percy Dearmer she founded fellowship services at Kensington Town Hall, then set up as an independent minister at Guild-house in London's Eccleston Square. Possessor of an intellect vastly superior to any Aimee Semple McPherson (see below), Preacher Royden nevertheless employed a modicum of showmanship in uniforming her attendants and herself...
Most envied airman fighting with the Reds in Spain was Texan Major Frederic A. Lord. He had been given last week a ship with the very latest Hispano-Suiza "moteur canon," swankest instrument of Death. This engine has a hollow propeller shaft and through it fires an oversize machine gun or undersized field piece discharging explosive, tracer, incendiary or armor-piercing shells...
...virtue of being superintendent of the International Reform Federation with offices at Washington, portly, white-crowned Dr. William Sheafe Chase, canon of the Episcopal Church, has for the past ten years been the ex officio No. 1 U. S. Reformer. Having devoted a lifetime to denouncing vice and lobbying for purity, 79-year-old Canon Chase last week retired. Into the superintendency and the Washington office, where U. S. vices are alphabetically cataloged beginning with Billiards and ending with Theatre, stepped a seasoned reformer named Clinton Norman Howard, 68. He announced that the Federation, endowed with $250,000, would bend...
...acquired it from the family of its late Editor Frederick Joseph Harvey Darton. Founder of Chatterbox was the Rev. Erskine Clark who started it in St. Paul's shadow in 1866 passed it on to Editor Darton when he died in 1901. In the monthly Chatterbox, Canon Clark hoped to get children's minds off "bad stories." He succeeded so well that the bound volume of Chatterbox became a Christmas gift necessary in England to parents & children alike...