Word: brooklyn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Central Congregational Church Brooklyn...
...Rowntree, the millionaire Quaker cocoa manufacturer; 4) Liberal M. P. cartooned by Punch for speaking broken English mixed with Hungarian in Parliament; 5) Wartime mail censor in the British Postoffice Department; 6) Employed by Herr Steinhauer of the German Secret Service while still receiving British pay; 7) Imprisoned at Brooklyn, N. Y., pending extradition to England, where he was sentenced to three years' imprisonment for a forgery committed two years earlier. (The circumstances that he was not tried as a spy and was not arrested when the forgery was committed, were cited by him as proving his innocence...
Boomerang. "He has shown us the art of giving." At a celebration tendered to Dr. S. Parkes Cadman on the 25th anniversary of his pastorate, at the Central Congregational Church, Brooklyn, Trustee Frederick W. Rowe said these words and extended a check for $25,000, a personal gift from every family in the Church to their pastor and his wife. For the term 1924-28, Dr. Cadman is President of the Federal Council of Churches, succeeding Dr. Robert E. Speer...
Later in the week she was scheduled to sing in Brooklyn. She thought of the 2,000 people who had bought their tickets. She had a foot and ankle so badly swollen that she could not get on her shoe, so sore that she could not" bear any of her weight on them...
...vigorous, exuberant prima donna swept across the stage of the Brooklyn Academy of Music. The big curtain was down tight; another makeshift drop shut off the people seated on the stage, from the strip of stage whereon the singer was to stand. At the appointed hour, the great curtain lifted, slowly, solemnly, disclosed Jeritza, there, ready, her weight on one foot in true Bernhardtian manner. Her husband, big Baron von Popper, had carried her on, propped her against the piano, left her there to give pleasure to a great audience that applauded her singing, her pluck...