Word: carly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...onward Mr. Davison Dalziel had been a member of the board and an intimate of M. Nagelmackers. He, now Baron Dalziel, is thus Chairman of the Board of Wagons-Lits by a definite right of succession. His proudest boast is that the Armistice was signed in Wagons-Lits car...
Carl Wiedemann (owner of famed racehorse, In Memoriam) arrived in a special car at the Atlanta Penitentiary to serve a two-year term for violation of the Volstead Act. His father, George, president of the Wiedemann Brewing Co., did not go to jail with him, but paid the U. S. a $10,000 fine. His horse, In Memoriam, remained on his stud farm at Newport, Ky., munching bluegrass. As a three-year-old, In Memoriam outran Oilman Harry Ford Sinclair's swift Zev at the $50,000 Latonia stakes on Nov. 3, 1923. Two weeks later, Zev defeated...
...Here are the thirteen, numbered in the order in which the bishop gives them: 1. The ministry is mentally stimulating; the minister keeps up with secular knowledge as well as with religious events. 2. It is physically attractive; pastoral calling means much fresh air, walking and driving a car. 3. It is spiritually helpful to the minister; building up the faith of others, he also builds up his own and so has few spiritual worries. 4. It is a prayerful life and therefore 'his nerves are at rest.' 5. It is independent ; 'one can rise...
...Springfield, N. Y., William Morgan drove past the Methodist Episcopal church, heard organ music. William Morgan knew that no church service was scheduled for that hour, so he stopped his car, tiptoed into the church and peeked at the tramp who was playing hymns. Then William Morgan went off to find the minister of the church and a policeman...
...pack animals higher. Sliding, slipping, going down on all four haunches (something a yak is rarely forced, or even able, to do) the animals somehow reached the General Reading Plateau. Here we pitched Camp No. 1, twenty thousand feet above the sea, one hundred feet above the street car line...