Word: canon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...else seemed to want. And, because he had to get ready for the next race, he was not even going to see Bright Mark run. If Bright Mark had actually lost, he would not only have done Lonnie out of a week's pay, but violated every canon of a good horse-racing story. Keeping the conventions intact, Bright Mark came in first. What the man who rejected the five tickets did is not a matter of record. Lonnie Gray stoically continued selling tickets. When his work was done, he leaped out of his cage, went over...
Producer Dowling has bolstered the play's shadowy situations with the best actors he could hire on either side of the Atlantic. Forty-four-year-old Sir Cedric Hardwicke (youngest actor ever knighted) plays the witty Canon Skerritt, who glories in the forms of Catholicism, finds comfort in its intellectual discipline as he sips his old Madeira, calls his parishioners boobs, but achieves a state of grace through the faith of his kitchen slavey...
Actress Julie Haydon plays radiantly as the simple-hearted slavey, makes the Canon's conversion entirely credible. Chief among the excellent supporting cast is Sara Allgood. Her plump, pious spinster was so richly comic that first-nighters chortled at her every gesture...
Backward. Spiritual climax of the Washington gathering was a communion service in the Cathedral, conducted by Bishop James Edward Freeman, Dean Noble Cilley Powell and Canon Anson Phelps Stokes, to which believers of all faiths were invited. Such a service was conducted by the Archbishop of Canterbury after the Oxford Conference last summer, with the stipulation that it did not set a precedent. To many an Anglican and High Episcopalian, "open communion" is fraught with danger. To them this celebration is no mere Lord's Supper or fellowship meal; it is a sacrificial act performed by a priest...
...Justice of the Supreme Court (one doing double duty). The Justices have the right to sit as members of lower federal courts and, indeed, until the abolition of the federal circuit courts, it was their duty. It is the pressure of business, the limitation of time, and not a canon of judicial etiquette which makes it unusual that a Supreme Court Justice sits on a case with members of a lower federal court...