Word: christian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Dolly Sisters (2) set the pace of fortune by announcing that they had won a total of $820,000 during the present season of baccarat at Cannes, French Riviera. During the week King Christian X of Denmark, now at Cannes, deemed it worth, his royal while to stand for half an hour near Miss Rosie Dolly while she plunged at baccarat and won 4,000,000 francs ($160,000) in a single afternoon. Friends of the Dollys could only beam and recall a few of the piquant events which have transpired since they were born simultaneously, 35 years...
...piety: "Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an automobile...
...Moore, Plummer professor of Christian Morals and Ethics recently commented upon a growing restlessness among "the faithful few still attending chapel." "Not only are softer cushions to be found in the Farnsworth Room," said Mr. Moore, "but also at Yale and Princeton...
Died. Mabel Cratty, 60, secretary of the national board of the Young Women's Christian Association since its formation in 1906; in Manhattan; of pneumonia...
...sounds like rock. In German petroleum is rock-oil (Steinöl). Most unfortunately the bird of Persian mythology would not do. Medieval France was then scanned. A suitably universal monster was found adorning every Gothic Cathedral, fighting off devils. Gargoyle, therefore, became synonymous for lubricating oil wherever Christian church architecture is known. The management of the Vacuum Oil Co., disliking puns, noticed too late that the unfortunate rhyme between "oyle" and oil. Gargoyle was already on countless billboards, luring motorists, drawing business. Last year Vacuum's earnings, it was allowed to be understood last week, were equal...