Word: canonized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Your order of so-called suspension has reached me and amused me very much," telegraphed the warden of the state penitentiary at Canon City, Col., to Gov. Clarence J. Morley last week. Then the warden (Thomas J. Tynan by name) stationed machine guns and armed guards on his prison walls. No one dared enter to serve suspension papers on Warden Tynan. Said he: "You can say for me-and I don't mean maybe-that anyone trying to break into this prison will get the same dose as anyone trying to break out." Jesting friends of Governor Morley took...
...What do you Americans mean by 'petting' or 'necking'?" queried, last week, at Chicago, Canon William Thompson Elliott of Leeds, England. Then, to show himself a clergyman of the world, he hastily added: "Those words don't exist in England. The things which I imagine are referred to don't happen over there. I'm sure they...
...oblige the Canon, reporters ventured definitions...
...Prudent, Canon Elliott expressed no opinion on these definitions. When persistent newsgatherers asked: "Isn't it true that in Australia 'Do you smooge?' is equivalent to 'How about a petting party?'" the Canon was again silent...
Milton now, fearless and speculative, converted his own case into a public protest against the existing laws and theory of marriage, in a pamphlet entitled "The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce, Restored to the good of both Sexes from the Bondage of Canon Law and other Mistakes...