Word: authorative
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Eager for unity, the convention sent Lundeberg a boatload of delegates bearing olive branches. At the hall where S. U. P. was holding its weekly meeting, they found the Norse giant himself, blocking the door. Fists clenched, he thundered at Revels Cayton, author of the unity proposal, denounced him as fink and traitor. Of the secessionists only the repentant firemen returned to the federation fold. This week Lundeberg announced worse news for the Maritime Federation: His sailors had now chosen A. F. of L. by a 2-1 vote, were ready to join A. F. of L.'s Maritime...
...confused with his distant kin, Author Thomas Hardy, who was not born until 34 years after Trafalgar...
...athletic carnival of the Sokols, lasting a full month. Sokol Congresses, scheduled every six years, are much older than the modern Olympic Games and, like the ancient Olympics, their background is strongly national. The Czechoslovak Sokol, oldest national gymnastic organization in the world, was founded in 1862 by Philosopher Author Dr. Miroslav Tyrs and Dr. Jindrich Fügner. The name Sokol, meaning falcon, was adopted because it is the traditional name for Czech folk-song heroes. During the years of Habsburg dominance, Sokol groups served to keep Czech nationalism alive. When the World War broke out members filtered into...
...friends, she fled Manhattan, went to Baltimore to open the first Catholic parochial school, then to Emmitsburg, Md. to conduct the first American convent for the Sisters of Charity. Throughout her short life Mother Seton kept up a journal and a voluminous correspondence, with a remarkable literary quality which Author Feeney likens to Elizabeth Browning's. To her son William, who went to sea as a midshipman, she wrote passionately loving letters. Excerpt: "Last night I had you close where you used to lie so snug and warm when you drew the life stream 20 years ago, and where...
...Manhattan stage a year ago. To playgoers, the particular merits of Arthur Kober's study of a group of unmoneyed young New Yorkers vacationing in the Berkshires were that all of the visitors at Kamp Kare-Free were unmistakably denizens of The Bronx and that the author had caught, with sympathy but cruel precision, all the semi-miraculous gradations of Bronx Jewish dialect. As presented on the screen, nothing but the name of the camp, Douglas Fairbanks Jr.'s aquiline profile, and a few traits recognizable only to the student of the New York melting pot, identify...