Word: chosen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...votes Dry, drinks Dry, rarely talks Prohibition. Because of a deadlock he, a Democrat, was chosen chairman of the Republican- controlled Senate Interstate Commerce Committee during the 68th Congress...
...Chosen as F. N. G. C. organizer was William H. Settle, president of the Indiana Farm Bureau Federation, the man who led the "Equalization Fee March" around the Republican National Convention hall last year in Kansas City. Ever an enthusiast, Organizer Settle said last week in Chicago: "This is the greatest day in the history of agriculture since I can remember. . . . This is what we have been dreaming for years?united action? and it's the first time it has been realized. . . . President Hoover is sincerely trying to carry out the pledge he made...
...Sculptor Houdon was chosen by Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson, as "the best [sculptor] in any of the European States," to do a statue of Washington. With Franklin he traveled to the U. S., stayed two weeks at Mount Vernon, took measurements, made plaster casts. He is said to have sought vainly for the desired facial expression until he saw Washington dismiss an avaricious horse trader...
...play (The Constant Wife) on the stage. Miss Chatterton goes away, but she only pretends to have somebody with her. Her tentative paramour gets off the train as it is leaving the station. William Somerset Maugham's epigrams on the sound device, and intelligent acting by a well-chosen cast, suggest what U. S. audiences have learned to accept as the authentic atmosphere of a London drawing-room. Imogene Wilson, now Mary Nolan, plays satirically and deftly as the blonde girl who brings about the inconstancy of the constant wife's husband. Best shot: The ladies mouthing epigrams...
...Paul Jones* was appointed Episcopal archdeacon of all Utah. That same year Bishop Spaulding died and all were pleased that the young missionary was chosen to succeed...