Word: bearse
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Assuming that a good Episcopalian should be glad to give 1? to his church as a thank offering after every meal. Bishop Stewart calculated that "Bishop's Pence" might bring in $400,000 a year, revolutionize the diocesan finances. Last week Bishop Stewart had a Bishop's Pence...
When two polar bears in Milwaukee's Washington Park Zoo ducked and drowned a small black bear last autumn (TIME, Nov. 7), the Zoo's Director Edmund Heller was indulgent. He compared the duckers to playful small boys, did not even feel it necessary to abandon his experiment...
Somebody in your neighborhood at home will have told you about the park's bears. There are some 700 black and silver-tipped grizzlies this year, so you are bound to see plenty. The park service runs tourist camps, but you can safely pitch your tent anywhere. (For ferocious...
* Fourth of July Conductor van Hoogstraten played the blustering Grand Festival March which Richard Wagner wrote for the Centennial Celebration of the Declaration of Independence. Ever a shrewd business man, Wagner demanded $5.000 for his March and when it was finished he sent it, not to Conductor Theodore Thomas who...
In 1871 while the Chicago fire was roaring down on his Tremont House, John Burroughs Drake rushed out and bought another hotel, taking a chance that it would be saved. It was. John Drake lived to build a conservative business reputation and a hotel fortune which he left to his...