Word: came
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...John Howard Melish, 74, rector of Brooklyn's Episcopal Church of the Holy Trinity, got his walking papers last week, but he declined to budge. His bishop fired him, but Rector Melish came right back with the observation that the bishop had no right to do such a thing. He sat pat and so did his son and associate rector, the Rev. William Howard Melish, 38, who was the cause of it all. Young Minister Melish's activities as chairman of the National Council of American-Soviet Friendship, and busy associate of several other organizations cited as Communist...
...Mohammedan legend has it, Jesus was walking in the bazaar with His disciples one day when they came upon the body of a dead dog. "How it stinks!" blurted one disciple. Said another: "Look at the buzzards wheeling overhead." But Jesus looked and said, "How whiter than any pearls are the teeth...
...eleven, she joined the "Kracker Kids Kabaret" and won a small reputation as a juvenile torch singer. Then, at 14, her voice broke during an attack of laryngitis; it came out, says Vera, "slightly lower and not so noisy...
...studied in Berlin as a child, and even made a concert debut, but he stopped taking lessons when he was ten. When the Nazis came to power, he went to Australia on a tour and stayed there, giving concerts and perfecting, among other things, his high-elbow bowing technique. In 1941, he came to the U.S., got a job as concertmaster of the Cleveland Orchestra-and gave the Bartok concerto its U.S. premiere. When Cleveland's Conductor Artur Rodzinski took over the New York Philharmonic-Symphony in 1943, he asked Tossy to play it again. That was the beginning...
...year, Joe Louis' friends had been telling him it was time to quit. Joe just scratched his head (balding on top) and kept everybody guessing. Then he discovered a way of leaving the ring the way he came into it-with a bang-and without saying goodbye...