Word: birmingham
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Even if mechanical ingenuity can patch up this patriarch of the desert, a projecting wall will have to be built around the figure, according to Arthur Woodley. American civil engineer A caged Sphinx whose head is held on by bars of Birmingham iron can scarcely be expected to personify the wisdom and mystery of the East...
...championships were decided last week?one by the series of precise passes with which Alabama swept down a field in Birmingham to win its seventh game and the championship of the South by beating Georgia 27 to 0; and one by the sportsmanlike action of Northwestern in conceding to Michigan the "Big Ten" title for which the two had tied. And in Manhattan, under a sky of pewter, with a brass band playing for the march and countermarch of little figures in grey and little figures in blue, the Army beat the Navy 10 to 3 in the game that...
...Author. Poet and dramatist and one of the founders of the Birmingham Repertory Theatre (formerly The Pilgrim Players), John Drinkwater has gained most of his fame in America from his historical plays: Abraham Lincoln. Mary Stuart, Robert E. Lee. Besides these he has written Oliver Cromwell and now Robert Burns. His earlier plays were in verse, and he has in addition several volumes of poems. Today, only 43 years old, he seems to be at the height of his career...
...Major is a graduate of the University of New Zealand and of Exeter College, Oxford. He is an External Examiner in the University of London and examining Chaplain to the Bishop of Birmingham. He has served also as examining Chaplain to the Bishop of Hereford and has been preacher at Oxford and Cambridge. He is the author of numerous books including "The Gospel of Freedom", and "Reminiscences of Jesus", and has contributed articles to many magazines. He is editor of the Modern Churchman's Library...
...badly and again, though nothing could exceed the kindness of the registered medical gentlemen on the spot, they were unable to replace it for want of perfectly well known technique which every qualified surgeon should have at his fingers' ends. It took me ten days to get to Birmingham, where an American doctor of osteopathy, also classed as a blackleg by the General Medical Council, set me right after 75 minutes of skilled manipulation...