Word: chose
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Church coasted along till the Cabinet should come to reason. Last month the Government capitulated, promised that the concordat would be dropped. Within a week the Premier and Cabinet members were received back into the Orthodox Church, the election was held, three candidates for Patriarch selected. Regent Prince Paul chose a Patriarch-Gabriel, Metropolitan of Montenegro, 57, stanch patriot, Wartime Red Cross worker, Montenegrin leader in the post-War formation of Yugoslavia. Patriarch Gabriel will enjoy the fruit of the Church's victory by agreement-the Government must consult him next time it plans any negotiations with the Vatican...
...best known professors. For this group, twelve girl students were enlisted to serve wine. These students did not imbibe; their's but to stand and wait. A part of the Radcliffe Choral Society which entertained at dinner, however, did receive some of the "alcoholic depressant," as the preacher chose to term good sherry, although certainly not in such quantities as to outrage the memory of Mrs. Cabot, a former temperance worker, in the building dedicated to her name...
Only one of the competitors, Gordon N. Messing '38, chose a Latin selection, reciting parts from Lucretius' "De Rerum Naturae." Other recitations ranged from excerpts from James Joyce to passages from a speech made by Senator Claude Pepper on the 1937 Appropriation Act. The finals, open to the public, will be held in Paine Hall on Wednesday evening, March...
...again refused to answer questions about Actress Garbo. "I have a right to my private life when I want it," said he. "One must think in solitude to create. That is what I am doing now." The reporters tried another tack, asked him his favorite cinema stars. Stoky chose Charles Boyer and John Barrymore. Asked for his choice in actresses, he shook his head, "Let's go to another subject...
Professor Pearl chose the New York Academy of Medicine, where he was invited to talk on "The Search for Longevity," to scare the life out of tobacco manufacturers and make tobacco users' flesh creep. He based his statement on what he sternly declared were the "first life [statistical] tables ever constructed to show the relation between tobacco smoking and longevity...