Word: parkers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Matthew Parker was a pious, scholarly divine who took unto himself a spouse in 1547, when it was still illegal for clergymen of the Church of England to marry.* In 1560, as Queen Elizabeth's Archbishop of Canterbury, Matthew Parker was set to draw up a list of marriage prohibitions. The resultant Table of Kindred and Affinity, Wherein Whosoever Are Related are Forbidden in Scripture and Our Laws to Marry Together stands prominently in every Anglican church in England to this...
Since 1907, successive Acts of Parliament have cut Archbishop Parker's prohibitions from 30 to 20. First to fall was No. 17, ended by the Deceased Wife's Sister Marriage Act. But the Church of England held fast, continued to frown on a woman who married her brother's daughter's husband or a man who married his wife's father's sister. Though these three marriages and seven others of their ilk are now legally permissible in England, many a clergyman has refused to perform them, has solemnly shown the Parker table...
Suave Cosmo Gordon Lang, Archbishop Parker's present successor, is a bachelor. But he has an interest in matters matrimonial-as he showed during Edward VIII's abdication crisis in December 1936. Last week His Grace's Commission on Kindred and Affinity as Impediments to Marriage handed him a report. It recommended that the Church henceforth give its blessing to a man marrying his: father's brother's wife, wife's father's sister, wife's mother's sister, wife's sister, brother's wife, mother's brother...
...Syracuse, N. Y. last week, he might well have been uneasy. There, at the Onondaga Skeet Club, 270 sharp shots met in the sixth annual tournament of the National Skeet Shooting Association. First crack out of the box, in the 28-gauge event, two youngsters - 15-year-old Bobby Parker and 18-year-old Dick Shaughnessy - after tying three other contestants (at 99 out of 100) fought a breathtaking, shoulder-to-shoulder duel for five 25-bird shoot-offs before Parker finally missed a bird. It was the longest shoot-off witnessed on any skeet field since the sport...
Sensational murders and scandalous divorce cases PM also avoids, but in spite of this fact, and of the group of intellectuals (Dashiell Hammett, Dorothy Parker, Lillian Hellman, et. al.) who assisted at its birth. PM is no high-brow sheet. Publisher Ingersoll declares frankly that it is aimed at the masses and the low-income groups (incomes of $750 to $4,500 a year). For them he provides two pages a day devoted to labor news, union activities and unemployment, also bargains in food and clothing, cartoons by some leftist artists, drawings and photographs of garment workers, Negro scrubwomen, shirt...