Word: churchwoman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rights -had declared themselves no longer members of their church. (Since 1952 Swedes have been permitted to leave the state church merely by signing a form stating their intention.) Leader of the women's protest was Esther Lutteman, 69, a clergyman's widow and an outstanding Lutheran churchwoman, who denounced the church as too ceremonial, too institutional and, worst of all, too masculine...
...Edward VIII and Wally Simpson. IF THEY WANT TO MARRY, WHY SHOULDN'T THEY? demanded Lord Beaverbrook's Sunday Express, an old champion of Edward's romance. But the austere Church of England Newspaper, shook a stern finger.. Princess Margaret, it warned, "is a dutiful churchwoman who knows what strong views leaders of the church hold in this matter . . . The thought of the religious principle concerned might cause to some the very deepest suffering...