Word: bores
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...General said, "God almighty, what a mistake!" And to the striker,- "Fix things for Bishop Brent!" But the khaki-clothed Bishop would not stop to eat. He had lunched with an Igorot in his mountain hut. He pushed on with a pleasant word to his furry companion who bore his canonicals and pajamas. "The Bishop," explained the General, "doesn't work among the Christian Filipinos. He says the Catholic God is the same as our Episcopalian God. He confines his efforts to Americans, English and the savages, who are heathen. The Methodists, Baptists and other Protestant pastors are sore...
Forty-eight years ago a baby was born blind in Montgomery, Ala. She grew up, married a man named Wagoner, bore a son whom she could touch but never see. Lately, ill, she was taken to the charity hospital at Colfax, La. The doctors told her they thought they might, even now, operate and make...
...slender, rusty-haired Calvin Coolidge was there at college, a class behind. A powerful man of 200 lb., he knocked the wind out of President Hoover in one of the medicine-ball games last month. For two days little Hugh Gibson, U. S. Ambassador to Belgium (see p. 21), bore a red mark on his nose after attempting to catch one of Justice Stone's mighty throws. The Stone roughness was sufficient to cause protests to the President; reminders that, after...
Finally a piece of chalk was placed be tween two slates. When the slates were parted, one of the slates bore the legend "Science vs. Spiritualism...
...Anne Boleyn, young, bold, bright-faced, ambitious. Her sister had been a mistress of Henry's. No mistress would she be. Heavy-breathing Henry wrote long love letters to her with hearts drawn on them. She bore Elizabeth. He said she was adulterous, chopped off her head...