Word: canonization
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...smooth and polish it with a bit of broken glass. Grinning ingratiatingly, he will hand you a tawny whip. Just right for use on a blackamoor, in the opinion of most South African white men. The callous manner in which White Rancher Jaerl Nafte recently violated every rule and canon of kiboko etiquette was really the cause of his undoing...
However, although young Furoda had announced himself extraordinarily insulted, and although he seized a hara-kiri knife and rushed in a towering rage to the house of his insulter, he failed to disembowel himself upon the doorstep. Instead, when Insulter Yamamoto opened his door, In-sultee Furoda, violating every canon of Japanese etiquette, plunged the short sharp blade not into his own vitals, but into those of the astounded Farmer-Laborite, who died instanter...
Died. The Rev. Dr. J. Townsend Russell, since 1918 canon of the Washington Cathedral; in Washington...
...Coolidge to pardon an Englishman. Promptly Il Re granted the request of Il Papa, last week, by advice of Il Duce, who is anxious to cement in every possible way the new Italo-Papal accord (TIME, Feb. 18). Presumably the priests freed under Civil Law will be retried under Canon Law, and, if convicted, clapped back into civil jails...
...Thinking was first written in English, though Ernest Dimnet is a Frenchman and also writes facilely in Latin. He is 62, an abbe and a canon, and lives in the shadow of Notre Dame cathedral in Paris. Cardinal Newman's Apologia, which he won as a prize for playing handball in his schooldays, has influenced him more than any other book. He lectured at Harvard several years ago. He likes Columbia's Nicholas Murray Butler and dislikes the Freudian case system. The Bronte Sisters is his best known earlier work...