Word: romish
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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High-church priests may now anoint the sick. (This practice, thought to be Romish, was not previously canonical.) To the Burial Service, least Christian of the rites, have been added more selections from the New Testament. The Psalms have been corrected for mistranslations, but still do not conform with the Biblical version. A petition for travelers by air has been added to the Litany...
...answer is that he is a slender, grey-crested person with a Romish nose and a sartorial perfection suggestive of the stage. Who the hell is he? He was born on the Mother Lode of California 59 years ago and one of his parents had Mayflower ancestors. He is one of those persons who has been vaguely "associated with" and "closely allied with" various famous people. His biography gives a onetime State Engineer of New York, the Board of Supervisors of San Francisco, and the late Major-General Leonard Wood, as references. He "has travelled in many parts...
...more or less consequential lay members of the Protestant Episcopal Church from 45 of the 72 U. S. dioceses, signed a memorial to the House of Bishops petitioning that the Thirty-nine articles be retained in the Prayer Book. The signers of the memorial omitted to specify certain Romish practices which they regarded with much disfavor; but they made reference to "an organized movement wishing the Protestant Episcopal Church to adopt some of the doctrines and forms of worship now observed in the Roman Catholic Church...
...Church of England for centuries is a thing worth preserving in national life." Such reasoned argument appealed to many in the House, but passions began to stir when a fiery blast against "compromise" was blared by the Home Secretary, hot-headed reactionary Sir William ("Jix") Joynson-Hicks. Cried he: "Romish practices have been tolerated too long in the Church of England! The bishops know not how to suppress these practices and so they propose to surrender to them. Today [sarcastically] it is to those Bishops who have proved their impotence [against Romish influences] that this House is being asked...
...swallowed that insult to your readers -only to open this week to two columns of Papacy and Romish church...