Word: canon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ducks, mashed potatoes, lima beans, macaroni, asparagus, cole slaw, stewed corn, 1 hot mince pie, 1 qt. coffee; 1 bottle sauterne, 1 qt. champagne, several cognacs. He particularly liked a 7-lb. beefsteak, 1½-in. thick, so rare it was hardly warm.. * A violation of a major canon of the American Bar Association, which, however, never peeped until some time after Judge James had been safely elected...
...Protestant Episcopal Church numbers many a human pillar who has been divorced and remarried. Perennially the Church faces a question which will not be downed: What to do about such good people who get civil divorces, wish to remarry in church? The Episcopal canon on marriage, as liberalized in 1931, is still strict and specific: rectors may marry only those divorced persons who are 1) innocent parties in divorces for adultery; 2) innocent partners in marriages annulled for premarital cause. But not a few parsons, in dioceses with liberal bishops, marry divorcees anyway and get away with...
Deputies to the General Convention are not only all male, but usually oldish and conservative. The 1937 Convention voted down a less liberal amendment of the marriage canon. It will be news if the 1940 Convention proves itself much younger or less conservative...
...pacifist is now in jail, including Henri Roser, secretary of the French Fellowship of Reconciliation. Lecturing on peace in the U. S. last week, Muriel Lester, dynamic British pacifist, friend of Mahatma Gandhi, declared: "One can be proud of Britain's civil liberty." Example: the Government recently permitted Canon Charles Earle Raven to broadcast on absolute Christian pacifism...
Gawky, cadaverous Sinclair Lewis, rehearsing his third stage role, as the canon in Paul Vincent Carroll's Shadow and Substance, overrode the veto of his technical adviser, the Rev. Edward Murphy, performed in a redlined, red-piped cape (correct for monsignors) on the ground of "good theatre...