Word: canonizes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Kawamoto the sole job of persuading Marshal Wu to play puppet. Learning that the good Marshal was a great student of Buddhist classics, Major General Kawamoto sought to ingratiate himself by studying Buddhism as Wu's disciple. The Marshal gladly expounded the Master's life, the Buddhist Canon, the four Truths. One day last month, thinking he had won the Marshal's heart, General Kawamoto suddenly switched the subject from pulpiteering to puppeteering. Would Wu Pei-fu play? "No!" thundered the Marshal...
...national day of prayer, the Archbishop of Canterbury said: "The whole people of the United Kingdom, as they enter upon the terrible ordeal of war, may be able to join together as one company in committing the national life and cause to Almighty God."* Said Roman Catholic Canon Martin Hewlett: "They at home . . . should invoke the powerful aid of the Queen of Heaven to protect England, her dowry, in this time of crisis...
...William Thomas Manning, small, dry, astute Episcopal Bishop of New York, has always been a leader in the church unity movement. Bishop Manning has his enemies, but those enemies have hardly ever caught him out on a point of theology or canon law. Last fortnight Dr. Manning threw the great weight of his shrewd experience against the "Proposed Concordat" drawn up last year as a means of eventually uniting the Episcopal and Presbyterian Churches (TIME...
...whose subject is after all the whole world. One of the finest is the treatment of "The Tempest," of which its author says, "'The Tempest' does bind up in final form a host of themes with which its author has been concerned." What the play does for the Shakespearean canon, this essay does for the book which it brings to a lovely and harmonious close...
...Heywood Broun, these seemed strange words indeed. Although he had never attacked a Christian church as such, he had in the past laid about him in bludgeoning fashion among the churches, belaboring reactionaries like Bishop James Cannon Jr., Canon William Sheafe Chase, Anthony Comstock (in a biography he helped write). To many a U. S. churchman, Heywood Broun was a Red, certainly a freethinker, probably an atheist...