Word: alas
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...master in 300. It is a good story, not because it is much of a story but because the characters act convincinely, from the heroine who begins chilly and learns to be cold, to her son, ten minutes old, "a lusty, tomato-colored child, which appeared to cry, Ala-as! Ala-as! Ala...
...Branscomb of Anniston, Ala., regarding the possibility of the Democrats' nominating a wet for the Presidency: "My grandfather and my father were Democrats, and if I should vote the Republican ticket they might turn in their graves, but I would do it if the northern Democrats should betray the cause for which we have suffered...
...born into a Methodist family of Maryland 68 years ago, and early developed a penchant for the Christian ministry. But before his education had been completed, circumstances threw him into money-making and set him down on a bookkeeper's stool in the Osage Coal and Mining Co., Selma, Ala. He rose, prospered. In 1892 he was a banker, a broker, a potential payer of income surtaxes. Having compounded with the market place, he was two years later ordained priest of the Episcopal Church and sent as missionary along the Alabama River. At the turn of the century, Baltimore called...
...knew the story of his devotion to the Church National, Universal. So after 14 ballots, during which Bishop Brent of Western New York and Bishop Gailor of Tennessee unsuccessfully divided most of the votes between them, there came a sudden rush of enthusiasm for the onetime bookkeeper of Salem, Ala. He became unanimously "Primus"? an office in a small degree comparable to that of Archbishop of Canterbury. .Elected, he bowed his head in prayer for a long period. Interviewed, he said: "... a man feels, a sense of insufficiency. I haven't got over that feeling yet." Said Bishop Brent...
...Muscle Shoals, Ala., the world's largest hydro-electric plant -600,000 h. p. in spring floods, 100,000 h. p. minimum-is now being built. Its construction is under the astute eye of Colonel Hugh L. Cooper, one of the two brothers responsible for the Keokuk and Niagara plants, not to mention various South American projects of great magnitude which they have designed, separately and together...