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Crying that this would place unprecedented discretionary power in the hands of bishops, the High Episcopal organ, The Living Church, asked with heavy sarcasm: "Why not repeal the Canon altogether and set up a new one: 'Communicants of this church shall not ordinarily be permitted to have more than one husband or wife at the same time?' " Divorced New York Episcopalians, it soon appeared, would find it hard to remarry even if the amendment were adopted. Grumped their Bishop William T. Manning, vacationing in Mt. Desert, Me.: "It is the report of a very one-sided committee. . . . Those...
...more like a resolutions committee-of-the-whole than like a convention. No one was elected to anything. No one was even nominated. After he had delivered himself of a 1,500-word oration on Freedom of the Press, President Stahlman, whose wit is as nimble as his sarcasm, settled down in the speaker's chair to conduct the meeting with good-natured flippancy, cutting short the long-winded, moving things along at a swift pace. Only real business at hand was the wording of an anti-Guild resolution...
Upon the unhappy Earl of Plymouth jumped both Prince Otto von Bismarck, the German Charge d'Affaires, and Italian Ambassador Dino Grandi, a fierce and scathing fighter in debate. With concentrated sarcasm Signer Grandi asked Comrade Cahan why, if Russia was so strong for non-intervention in Spain, she did not protest the British planes sold to Madrid, the British ships running guns to Spanish Reds, and the British fighting with the Red Militia, as well as the open encouragement to Spanish radicals given by such British members of Parliament as Laborite William Dobbie. This belaboring of Comrade Cahan...
Early last week dispatches from a vacation spot in Colorado began to rustle through the becalmed leaves of the nation's Press. These remote stirrings indicated that an answer would soon be forthcoming for Columnist Westbrook Pegler, who last week treated his Scripps-Howard readers to the following sarcasm...
...Commons circles set to retire from the Prime Ministry after the pomp and glory of the Coronation. According to Mr. Seeds, the old-fashioned Prime Minister was speaking strongly to the King about his projected modern holiday with Mrs. Simpson when His Majesty cut the conversation, saying with sarcasm: "Look here, if you don't stop it, Baldwin, I won't attend your beastly old Coronation." The King on his Balkan holiday last week went about with Mrs. Simpson and his other guests taking pictures with a small German camera. Once when a police-man seized a camera...