Word: royden
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Dr. Maude Royden Shaw, 79, first woman preacher in London (because Anglican precedent did not allow women clerics, she became an assistant minister at the nonconformist City Temple in 1917), Oxford-educated suffragette, onetime pacifist (she renounced pacifism as "negative" at the outbreak of World War II) who shocked American bluenoses by smoking cigarettes on a preaching tour in 1928, married (1944) the Rev. George W. H. Shaw after a 43-year, triangular love affair described in her book, A Threefold Cord; in London...
Said 74-year-old British Theologian Maude (Sex and Common Sense) Royden: "If you want to be a dear old lady at 70, you have to begin early, say about...