Word: canon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...proposed new canon on marriage and divorce is a sign of the times. If the General Convention were to adopt a canon such as this, which rejects the plain teaching of our Lord Himself* the Protestant Episcopal Church would be confronted with the gravest crisis in history...
...problem which will occupy the General Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church which meets in Denver this week is a proposed canon which would permit divorced persons to be married a second time by an Episcopal clergyman, a concession allowed at present only to the innocent party in a divorce for adultery (TIME, May 4). One astute, conservative Episcopal leader who will not be present to discuss this canon is Bishop William Thomas Manning of New York. He was resting under doctor's orders last week at Mt. Desert, seaside resort in Maine. He had not yet declared himself...
Died. Rev. John Neale Dalton, 91, associated with the British royal family for 60 years; tutor, religious adviser and Domestic Chaplain to King George V; at Windsor Castle, Windsor, England, where he was canon and steward of St. George's Chapel...
...instance." Unlike Sinclair Lewis, she does not bite her country's hand; unlike Edith Wharton (whose example influenced her early work) she casts no nostalgic backward glances toward Europe; unlike Ernest Hemingway, she carries no gnawing fox in her devoted bosom. Her simple, colloquial language obeys the canon of good prose (she rereads Pilgrim's Progress annually), and in that is unremarkable. But she has an individual quality, positive attributes which hide their light under a phrase or even a paragraph, but which shine through her pages like moonlight under water. When she was much younger...
...people did not want Fatty Arbuckle to return. One was Canon William Sheafe Chase, who said: "I have no personal animosity toward this man but think it very unwise to have him at this time to what I consider a very im nity." portant Wrote moral Editor influence Quirk: in the "No one commu accused Arbuckle of making a picture wasn't clean...