Word: brooklyn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Frank Wittington Creighton had grown so famed for his personality and his clean-cut rectorship of the Protestant Episcopal church of St. Ann's in Brooklyn that last October the General Convention of his Church (the Convention that deposed, in absentia, Bishop William Montgomery Brown for his heresies) elected him bishop, and last week, as he knelt before his own altar, seven bishops laid hands on him, consecrated him the 150th living bishop of that Church. At the end of the month he will leave with his family for his new duties as Protestant Episcopal Missionary Bishop of Mexico, with...
When the Creighton family get to Mexico City they will find a civilization quite other than that they knew in Brooklyn. They will find, it is true, a superficial resemblance in the clattering street cars and the well-paved streets. But they will find far wider distinctions between the social classes. Among the "foreigners," with whom they will associate they will find a ready, kindly, courteous welcome, a welcome tempered nevertheless at first by a quiet scrutiny, for the foreign colony of the city, perforce thrown into rather close communion, always wonders how affably the newcomer will...
...sheets. "The Polyglots" had a whole lot--not the Lardner-Witwer-Sherwood-Benchley type, nor even the gentle-professorial-high-and-mighty type--but some real humor. And now someone asks, "What is real humor?" I suppose the best answer, aside from Dr. Cadman's who is now making Brooklyn the Delphi of America--the best answer is silence, since this is not a question and answer column nor is it inspired by the deft delightfulness of syndication. But I have lost "The Polyglots". It may be too much like "Men Prefer Blondes" to appeal to those who say that...
...while ways and means of defeating rubber prices were discussed in the Committee, a Democrat, Loring M. Black of Brooklyn, presented on the floor of the House an entirely different attitude...
...terminus across the square from the City Hall; Hylan, dubbed "Red Mike," with his red hair only partly dimmed from sitting several years on a Judge's bench; Hylan, whom all dailies except the Hearst papers made the butt of jokes and the target of civic invective; Hylan, from Brooklyn, who was never a Tammany man although Tammany helped him to the mayoralty twice for a total of eight years; Hylan, who himself declared that he was persecuted by the traction "interests" and volunteered to defend the populace from their "schemes...