Word: canonized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sermon. The new head: London Lawyer Sir Arthur Brownlow fforde, 47, wartime under secretary in two British ministries (Supply, Treasury). Hard-pressed Rugby had frankly picked him because it needed someone who knew how to handle money. All week the London Times's letter columns bristled and huffed. Canon Harry Kenneth Luce, head master of Durham School, posed the question that troubled everyone: "Is a head master to be primarily a schoolmaster or an administrator...
Downtown in the convivial warmth of Canon City's Elks Club, barrel-shaped Warden Roy Best bull-roared with the boys and waited for his dinner. It was a nasty night outside. Snow swirled heavily about the high, menacing walls of Roy's place of business, the Colorado State Penitentiary, on the edge of town. On the grey stone towers, guards paced uneasily and strained to see through the swirling blizzard...
...injured and the low men on the squad. In essence, there can be but one criterion for deciding which men shall be awarded letters: the coach's judgment. To make him ratify his opinion by playing all his choices in one specific game is an artificial and outdated canon...
Britain's aging Queen Victoria, pottering about the halls of Windsor Castle in 1892, came upon a five-year-old boy eating grapes. She gave him a kindly pat on the head, for he was the son of her personal chaplain, Canon J. N. Dalton. "Go away, Queen," shouted the brash little boy, "I'm eating grapes." Unamused, the Queen exclaimed: "What a loud voice that...
Adding his voice to the swelling chorus, New York's Bishop Charles K. Gilbert, successor to Bishop Manning, reported that his office was swamped with applications for remarriage. He added that the present canon's ambiguous wording had forced him to appoint a committee of two lawyers and a psychiatrist to study each case...