Word: archness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...world. Largest is the London Yearly Meeting, with 20,000 members. Next in size is the Five Year Meeting of Indiana, located near Richmond, Ind. with 16,000 members who differ from most Quakers in having formal services with paid pastors. The combined Race Street and Arch Street Meetings of Philadelphia (15,000) are now practically reunited, after having been respectively Hicksite and Orthodox Quakers as a result of a schism a century ago.* Next largest are the Africa Eastern Group (7,000), the Madagascar Yearly Meeting (6,000), the Guatemala Yearly Meeting (3,600). Once, 17 years...
...letter came, as it was obviously intended to come, as a dramatic stroke to arrest world opinion, help pave the way for action. Next day in London the Laborite Daily Herald enthusiastically told His Majesty he had written "a letter which may alter world history!" London's arch-Conservative Morning Post dryly said: "The very least that countries to which the appeal was directed can do is give to the proposal their urgent and sympathetic consideration...
People with cleft palates clench their nostrils and arch their tongues in effort to make their enunciation intelligible. Dr. Fitz-Gibbon breaks them of those habits by putting thimbles in their nostrils, guide wires in their mouths. Girls with cleft palates are harder to treat than boys, said he, "because girls are ordinarily protected from the rude mockery of other children. Consequently they are apt to take pride in their funny way of talking...
Called to order by the Association's president, Vincent de Paul Fitzpatrick of the Baltimore Catholic Review, the VOICE began thundering at the arch foe it attacks all year long in print: Communism. Conventioneers applauded when the Rev. Dr. George Johnson of the Catholic University of America told them that "Catholics recognize Communism for what it is ... a heresy. Whatever Communism creates ... is just so much machinery for eliminating God from human society!" They cheered again when Bishop John M. Gannon of Erie cried: ''Who knows, but that in the secrets of Divine Providence, the Spanish people...
...sculptor's assistant. Sculptor Amore's winner was Iris Creating the Rainbow. Beside a modernized figure of the goddess, John Amore set a slender striated arc of marble which he described as "the nascent rainbow springing with the speed of light into the arch of the heavens" (see cut). Other winners...