Word: chosing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...only Chinese name for them that I can find would translate something like "Saucermites," "Midgettes,"-literally "tiny plates." Perhaps this nation's master chefs tried to find a name too, in former centuries, and finally showed the good judgment of giving the simple name they chose, letting the eater form his own opinion...
...manor house and full of antiques, a flower shop, a crematory where last year 16% of the dead were received and a towering $4,500,000 Mausoleum-Columbarium, with a Memorial Court of Honor, Memorial Terrace, Sanctuaries of Meditation, Vespers, Benediction, Trust and Truth. For Jean Harlow, William Powell chose the Sanctuary of Benediction...
...broadest, most nearly "national" in Japan's history. In it were a count, two army and navy men, an airplane manufacturer, eight civilians (five of them from the House of Peers, two from the Diet's major parties). As chief secretary of the Cabinet the Premier chose Akira Kazami, a minor politician with no money. Kazami was as surprised by the appointment as the rest of Japan. With a deep belly laugh he roared: "Ha! Ha! Wisdom is not in my line; neither is money. Turn me upside down and you won't get even a nosebleed...
...diocese, Lansing, 93rd in the U. S. Its bishop will be Most Rev. Joseph Albers, present auxiliary bishop of Cincinnati, brother of rich Merchant William Henry Albers (A. Nash Co., Albers Super Markets). And to organize and run the whole archdiocese of Detroit, Pius XI chose a trusted prelate, the only active Archbishop in the U. S. without an archdiocese-Most Rev. Edward Francis Mooney, Archbishop-Bishop of Rochester...
Surprisingly enough, the South was first in appointing a day for decorating the graves of soldiers who gave their lives in the Civil War. The Grand Army of the Republic, under its commander-in-chief, General John A. Logan, followed up the idea, and chose May 30, 1868 as the day for respecting Union graves. The holiday was quickly made annual by all save seven of the southern states, while Virginia recognized the occasion each year, but called it "Confederate Memorial Day". Thus Memorial Day is virtually a national event, and after almost seventy years of steady observance, has assumed...