Word: canoneer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...College, she had been attached to Kowloon's Anglican Church, whose congregation is composed mainly of educated, professional Chinese. After the Japanese captured Kowloon, no Anglican priest could visit the parish to administer the sacraments. Deaconess Lei reportedly escaped through the Japanese lines, reached Bishop Hall. Defying all canon and precedent, he ordained her, sent her back to Kowloon as its priest...
...Pacific. The son's wife allows her small children to play with it. Is this right?" Answer: "No. Church law declares that persons who violate the bodies of the dead, with a view to . . . any evil purpose, shall be punished with a personal interdict (Canon 2328). The honor due to the human body after death should indicate that the skull should be decently buried. The fact that it is a portion of the body of an enemy of this country makes no difference...
Breaks. Near Canon City, Colo., Lavenia Green was thrown by her horse, broke her leg, crawled five miles to her car, drove 35 miles to a hospital. In Portland, Ore., Paul H. Thorsen, treated for a broken bone in his knee, explained to hospital attendants that a girl friend had slipped and too abruptly...
...consider gold-yielding water in many respects remarkable, and yet no more so than the gold-bearing air of 'Catgut Canon.'. . . This air, or this wind, for it is a kind of trade wind which blows steadily down 600 miles of rich quartz croppings during an hour and a quarter every day, except Sundays, is heavily charged with exquisitely fine, impalpable gold...
Derby's Canon Francis J. Edmond agreed that burial requests are sometimes blasphemous: "One man left instructions that his body should be burned and his ashes scattered over his potato patch. That man was really trying to show his contempt for his own body...