Word: behalf
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...life he has worked on behalf of death-the death of personal integrity, the death of decent journalism,the death of honest patriotism-and now ultimately death will take its own."-Carlson & Bates...
...limbo in which moderate Nazi authorities have been ardently trying to keep him popped Reichsbischof ("Reibi") Ludwig Müller last week. Bishop Müller was commissioned three years ago to Nazify all Protestant Christianity. So bullheaded were his tactics on behalf of his strange brand of Christianity that he promptly aroused among outraged churchmen the first effective opposition to the Nazi regime that Germany has yet seen (TIME, June 12, 1933 et seq.). Nazi strategists became alarmed. Reichsbischof Müller was robbed of all authority, even deprived of his private automobile. Stubbornly he clung to his title, rode on streetcars...
...cleric. With what appeared to be the final curtain the audience was on its feet wildly cheering. But there was more to come. Stage had been set for the garden scene in Traviata. Flowers were everywhere. While members of the company stood by respectfully, Bori received rich tributes. In behalf of 200 friends, Mrs. Vincent Astor gave her a diamond brooch which once belonged to Empress Eugénie. For the Metropolitan Opera Guild Mrs. August Belmont presented a gold traveling clock. The Metropolitan directors gave their usual scroll; the chorus, a silver coffee urn; the stage hands, a silver...
...talk wildly of escaping from civilization to the peace of the South Seas. The idea inflamed his café friends. Somebody pulled wires in the Ministry of Public Instruction and brought out a fine document authorizing Gauguin to make an artistic expedition to the Colony of Tahiti on behalf of the Republic of France-at no salary. A benefit performance was staged at the Théâtre des Arts for Gauguin and the equally impoverished Paul Verlaine. Artist Gauguin decorated the théâtre with his pictures; Verlaine, Maurice Maeterlinck and Charles Morice wrote special plays...
...yelled loud & long, since the guaranteed bonds were not taken over as liabilities of the Corporation. But the Court decided that the reborn National Surety should be given a fair start in life, since its stock might become a valuable asset to be disposed of in the creditors' behalf...