Word: worded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...time: "He was also honest in the case of Jack Smiley, who wrote a column for Screwball's paper ('the Daily Snooze') until he got too good and met the fate of all who dare make the Screwball look like what he is-a five-letter word rhyming with drowsy. After putting in a lot of research work on it, Smiley turned in a story on a prominent prize fighter, which Screwball thought too good to use in his own paper. So he held it out, sold it to a magazine and pocketed the proceeds...
...skates a little bit. Ameche and Romero spark like worn-out cigaret lighters. A swing quintet, headed by Raymond Scott, tears into something called the War Dance of the Wooden Indians. And Sonja, hovering on the outer edge, looks on with bland, pudgy good nature, putting in a word here & there in excellent parrot English, and probably wondering, in Norwegian, what to do until the ice freezes again...
...last week sought for a label by which they might designate the unity movement. "Protestant" and "evangelical" they decided against since their projected Council would include Anglicans and Eastern Catholics. "Non-Roman," they felt, implied opposition to the Roman Catholic Church. So they decided to adopt and popularize the word "ecumenical," from the Greek meaning "the inhabited world...
...usual after a joint communion service, there was outcry last week which suggested that such services still impede rather than aid the ecumenical movement. The High -Church Episcopal Living Church, in a 3,000-word editorial, riddled intercommunion as being contrary to the Prayer Book, disturbing to the faith of the faithful, fostering the idea that the Church is "just another sect," denying the sacrificial quality of the celebration, tending toward sacrilege, admitting that human fellowship can be a substitute for "Divine Society." Said the Living Church: "We ask for . . . sympathetic understanding in our disagreement with those who would make...
...Anglicans would be asked to insist no longer on the sign of the cross at baptism, the wearing of surplices, kneeling at communion. In return the Nonconformists would be expected to forget their oldtime objections to bishops. Said a pamphlet released with the plan: "To many Free Churchmen the word 'bishop' still denotes 'the prelate's pride of place and autocratic methods . . . but the evils of nonresidence and the habits of the grandee are things of the past...