Word: beste
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Church, the M. E. Church. South, and the Methodist Protestant Church, aggregating 8,000,000 members, are to be united next April by a conference in Kansas City. Among other things the conference will decide on how best to merge seven boards all doing related tasks...
...tiny* Galerie Henriette on the fashionable Avenue Matigon, a set of drawings and water colors by Paul Cézanne was exhibited to clinch an argument: that Cézanne, contrary to deep-rooted popular suspicion, knew how to draw. The exhibitor: Adrien Chappuis, owner of one of the best, least-seen collections of Cézanne drawings. Taken largely from notebooks, many of the great painter's slight, spontaneous pencilings were evidence enough that he had regarded drawing as note-taking, not as an art in itself. Exceptional, however, was an early, penciled male nude, so accurate...
...soldierly Duke of Gloucester, best rider-to-hounds in his family, broke his collar bone when his horse slipped on mud after ably taking a fence near famed Melton Mowbray. Result: he got out of going to Queen Maud's funeral and smooth Brother Kent had to go instead. Still rooting for the underprivileged, the Duke of Windsor asked a British workingman & family to spend a jolly Christmas with him and the Duchess at their Château La Cröe, near Cap d'Antibes, French Riviera...
...philosophically packed his bags, including the lucky goalie pads he has been wearing for 14 years, pocketed the $1,000 check the Bruins gave him to soothe his injured feelings, and entrained for Detroit. There the nimble hands, quick eyes and split-second judgment that had made him the best goalie in the world behaved as well for the Red Wings as they had for the Bruins. In his first game the Red Wings trounced the top-notch Chicago Black Hawks, 4-to-1. "We'll be just as good as Boston before long," chuckled Newcomer Thompson. Owner Norris...
...properties as beyond the scope of the law. Ably playing to the hilt the new role of reformed penitent, the company announced: "While the changes . . . are of a sweeping character, obedience to the law, and a loyal respect for public opinion, demand that the task be performed in the best of faith...