Word: lent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Conceivably, Premier Aberhart might have maintained Alberta's financial honor by borrowing from the Dominion Treasury, which has already lent Alberta $26,000,000. Conceivably. Dominion Finance Minister Charles Avery Dunning might have exercised his right to use Dominion dollars to pay off Alberta's debts. Neither Premier nor Finance Minister chose such a course. "Bible Bill" Aberhart evidently was loath to give the Dominion additional financial reins on his Social Credit government. As for Finance Minister Dunning, he washed his hands of Alberta's de- fault, observing: "If Social Credit is sound and good, it will...
...King Edward cheerfully lent his Household Trumpeters to the old folk who ceremoniously assert every year that the "rightful" King is the descendant of beheaded Charles I's daughter Henrietta. Current pretender is Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria.* This year the various Stuart societies postponed their technical treason two months out of consideration for the House of Windsor's bereavement...
...this tedious business of trying to observe Lent as a long drawn-out season of six weeks were discarded; if most of the parish schedules of daily services were thrown in the waste basket; if the little half-baked priestlets who want...
...Lent," said Dr. Steele, "as now conceived, has come to be, for one group of Protestants, largely of Episcopalians to be sure, nothing but a joke; to another group, it is an intolerable bore." Dr. Steele calculated that in Philadelphia's Episcopal churches alone, extra Lenten service required 10,000 hours. Summed up Philadelphia's sharpest pulpiteer...
were turned out to pasture, at the hours their betters are engaged on weekdays earning their daily bread; if the Church would bring itself into consonance with the ways of modern living ... we would not have a Lent of languorous, lackadaisical observance, or much worse of none, but a Holy Week of new intensiveness...