Word: brownings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Patrick Henry Callahan of Louisville. Famed for the so-called Callahan Correspondence, consisting of letters between Patrick Callahan and more important public personages, which he mimeographs and broadcasts for editorial quotation, Mr. Callahan was the outstanding Roman Catholic opponent of the Brown Derby last year on the single issue of liquor. He has long been the moving spirit in an Association of Catholics Favoring Prohibition. The U. S. Drys, Consolidated, began as a movement chiefly among Protestants. The Presbyterian Board of Christian Education joined its potent propagandizing arm (Department of Moral Welfare) with 30 other temperance organizations including the Anti...
...same eighth of the draw. When the knot came undone, Orcutt and Hicks were out of the tournament and Collett was as good as champion. Or not quite as good. Two ladies clipped through their match and stood in her way. One was a slight, wiry lady in a brown sweater and a brown sports hat- Mrs. Dorothy Shearer Higbie of Detroit. At the beginning of her match with Collett the latter, though serious, seemed to be thinking of something else. Suddenly news spread over the course that Miss Collett and Mrs. Higbie had left the fourteenth green and that...
Strange and unfamiliar to Stokowski must have seemed the Academy of Music two days later as he walked through its sombre emptiness to the stage. Strange and unfamiliar must he have appeared to his orchestra-members, in his brown baggy golf clothes instead of his usual impeccable black. For it was no rehearsal, even though the hushed silence which greeted him was only that of tiers upon tiers of vacant seats. Then with strains of Bach and Mozart he gave a program unique for him, his first before a microphone and unseen listeners, his first to be paid...
...buying more than any other single country. The French Government, indignant at the popularity shown by U. S. cigarets over its own products, last week gave its factories instructions how to duplicate U. S. brands. These directions read: "... Soak the wet leaves in rum for 24 hours, add some brown sugar, some glycerine, chop up the leaves, dry them, pulverize them, add perfume to taste...
...Inauguration of Dr. Clarence Augustus Barbour as tenth president of Brown University. Oct. 25-Columbia University begins six-day celebration of its 175th anniversary...