Word: episcopalian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...House of Deputies (clerical and lay delegates), which met separately. Said one delegate: "Manning has his dander up and he has the Bishops cowed." There was talk of sending the Oldham resolution back to the Bishops, telling them to face the unity problem. But nothing happened. Chief reason: no Episcopalian wants a knockdown fight between Low-and High-Churchmen which would give the Church a bad press...
...Episcopalian vernacular for a bishop's black chimere and white rochet...
...graveside is dedicated by extemporaneous prayer. Lieut. Francis W. Read, an Episcopalian from Glendale, Calif., and Lieut. Clarence J. Merriman, a heroic Baptist of Shawnee, Okla., who has been under fire as much as any soldier, alternate in reading the committal service...
...Episcopalian Willkie found them serving "the cause of good will for America," characterized them as "vital to the future hopes, not alone of other nations, but of our own United States...
...American divorce," said the statement, "has practically made a farce of American marriage ... a scandal to the rest of the world." The Supreme Court decision, said the Catholics, bids fair "to make matters still worse." For the two dissenting Justices (Jackson, an Episcopalian; Murphy, a Catholic) there was praise...