Word: canoneer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Slight, deaf, intense Bishop Barry knows his wars. A winner of the D.S.O. for heroism as a chaplain in World War I, he has since served as Archdeacon of Egypt, Chaplain to the King, Canon of Westminster, and Vicar of the University Church at Oxford, which he packed with undergraduates as it had never been packed before-even by John Henry (later Cardinal) Newman. No stuffed shirt, he lists his recreations in Who's Who as "indescribable...
...Harrow young Churchill performed the miracle of being highly popular while remaining an individual. His Headmaster, the late J. E. C. Welldon, who became Bishop of Calcutta, noted the 14-year-old boy's "love and veneration" for the English language. He quoted Shakespeare by the scene. Canon James William Sackett Tomlin of Canterbury writes: "The one vivid memory that I have of him is [his] darting up during a house debate, against all the rules, before he had been a year in the house, to refute one of his seniors and carry all before him with a magnificent...
Ever since 1908, when the Pope declared that mixed marriages of Catholics and Protestants by Protestant clergymen were contrary to Catholic canon law, Catholic judges in Canada's overwhelmingly Catholic province of Quebec have declared such unions illegal and annulled them. But last week the highest tribunal in the Province, the Court of Appeals, unanimously threw out such an annulment, indicating that a papal decree did not change the laws of Quebec...
Editorialized the Quebec Chronicle Telegraph: "It is not for the Catholic Church to impose an inferior status on the clergy of other denominations before the civil law or to penalize innocent parties because one of its own members has failed to respect the canon...
...this tendency is PM, which could teach a few lessons to the Volkischer Beobachter on how to agitate the public, though it redeems itself by the sincerity with which it grants and strives for its purpose. In view of the trend of American journalism away from the ancient canon of "the whole truth and nothing but the truth," small wonder that many readers--those who can afford it--subscribe to more than one paper for a balanced news diet, and that America's most popular cliche, has become "Aw, it's a lot of propaganda...