Word: canonicals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cowles threatened to fight for his clinic, announced that under canon law the vestry had no right to interfere. Historian Chorley agreed with...
...Lexington, Ky., Jett of Southwestern Virginia, Cook of Delaware, Rhinelander (retired) of Pennsylvania. Most Rev. James De Wolf Perry, Presiding Bishop of the Church, was to send as his representative Bishop Hugh Latimer Burleson of South Dakota. New York's small Bishop Manning agreed to come. An honorary canon of Washington Cathedral, he would preach later in the day. Eyeing the light, airy choir, Bishop Manning might reflect that his own Cathedral of St. John the Divine is bigger but darker. He might also recall a remark Bishop Freeman made in Manhattan some years ago, when both Cathedrals were campaigning...
...their own broth theyselves then be fed wi' all the Milk o' Paradise" is a bit of Penny Pitches' Glastonbury wisdom that fits the odd-lot characters in Author Powys' romance. Glastonbury's broth begins to bubble & boil at the reading of the late Canon William Crow's will. To the disgust of the assembled Crows the old man has left his money to his secretary-valet John Geard, an evangelistic fanatic who can cure old Tittie Petherton's cancer pains by holding her in his arms. The stage...
...hear the Chamberlain speech announcing the new tariff many more members of Parliament than there are seats crowded into the House of Commons. Normally this causes no inconvenience, but last week, with the benches jammed, Honorable Members sat in the aisles, sat on the floor, hung over the balconies. Canon William Hartley Carnegie, who generally holds opening prayers in the House to rows of empty benches and a handful of earnest Christians, found 300 early M. P.'s eager to join him that after noon. Passes to the visitors' galleries were rare as rubies. In the peers' gallery barons, viscounts...
...church vessels he was naturally upset; when the detectives he sent for found a dead man in the squire's pew he was struck all of a heap. The murderer was tracked and some of the treasure recaptured in a few days, but before the whole truth came out Canon Effingham had a great many Disturbingly new experiences in a short time...