Word: canonizes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Professor Beale went on to say that "divorce is a social disease that one cannot prevent." With this in mind, he proposed a new canon on marriage and divorce, allowing, for the first time, remarriage under the Episcopalian church...
...Tuskegee, Ala. With dark faces shining, 1,600 students of Tuskegee Institute cheered, hollered and sang Hallelujah as two special cars brought trustees, alumni & friends to celebrate Tuskegee's Golden Jubilee. Came Secretary of the Interior Ray Lyman Wilbur, Chairman William Jay Schieffelin of Tuskegee's board of trustees, Canon Anson Phelps Stokes of Washington Cathedral, Manhattan Banker Paul Moritz Warburg, and representatives of 24 Governors. President Hoover was to speak to them over the radio, on "Race Relations...
...much-touted Theosophist Messiah, who recently went back on his backers by announcing that organization is wrong, individuality best. An apocryphal story (which Biographer Williams does not include) tells how Mrs. Besant tried to get Krishnamurti into Oxford. Applying first to the Warden of New College (the late famed Canon William Archibald Spooner), she described her charge as an incarnation of God. The Warden blenched, categorically refused to admit such a Presence, which might prove embarrassing to the other undergraduates. The Master of Balliol shook his head regretfully, said they had had a great many famous people at Balliol...
...Pole favored vigorous attack. The astute Italian shifted his play between defense and attack. The Marshal won sufficiently often not to resent his opponent's superior intellect. Pope Pius XI has all the distinctive attributes of mind-scholarliness, intellectuality, intelligence. The doctorates he holds in philosophy, theology and canon law he earned. When he attended the Lombard College at Rome, he and his comrade Alessandro Lualdi (later cardinal) were rated the most brilliant. Because he reorganized the Ambrosian Library in Milan and made it really useful to scholars, his friend King Vittorio Emanuele made him a Knight...
...Canon Spooner claimed that he was guilty of one spoonerism only in all his life, to wit: "The Kinkering Kongs their places take." The rest were just due to people picking...