Word: australia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Ormiston, adept operator of the Angelus Temple radio, unaccountably absent for some weeks, was likewise present at Los Angeles last week, but was not communicative as to where he had been. His wife recently sailed for Australia after filing divorce papers in which the name of Evangelist McPherson is bruited to be conspicuous...
Next day fully 200,000 people crowded into the stadium at Soldiers' Field on the Lake Michigan waterfront, heard addresses by Cardinal von Faulhaber of Munich, the Honorable David Ignatius Walsh of Massachusetts, Cardinal Dubois of Paris, Archbishop Mannix of Melbourne, Australia. (The next, 1928, Eucharistic Congress will be at Sydney, Australia.) Cardinal Bonzano himself celebrated solemn Pontifical High Mass. A choir of 60,000 children sang the "Mass of the Angels...
Died. Pongo, ship's bitch of the S. S. City of Oran; buried with full marine honors (the British Union Jack wrapped about her carcass) off Australia. In seven years at sea she had travelled "a million miles," visited nearly every country, known Limehouse ratruns, Manhattan piers, street fights in her native (presumably) Calcutta. She worked her passages carrying squigees and swab sticks, guarding the gangway, doing amusing tricks...
...Duchess of that. They called her back again and again after each curtain; gave her a riotous ovation when Lord Stanley of Alderly, chairman of the Royal Colonial Institute, presented her with a gigantic floral display that filled the entire stage, a floral kangaroo, emblem of her native Australia in the centre, flanked by British and Australian flags. She tried to thank them: "Covent Garden . . . the dearest place I know . . . my public . . . dear old Austin, who for 36 years has been at the stage door and helped me to my carriage . . . good-bye . . . good...
Publicist Kawashima thundered: "Like a devil, the U. S. is restraining Japan's desire for 'open doors' to America, Australia, and Africa. The U. S. not only shuts us out but encourages other nations to exclude us. Japan no longer can stand such injustice! The Japanese-U. S. war has been decreed by Heaven. We must kick the U. S.-a mortifying influence...