Word: christs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Elected. Dr. Frank Parker Day, onetime Second Lieutenant in the King's Colonial Imperial Yeomanry, Major of the 28th New Brunswick Dragoons; Master of Arts at Christ Church (The House), Oxford, college boxer, crew man; English lecturer at Swarthmore College, as president of Union College to succeed Dr. Charles Alexander Richmond, resigned...
...Grecian blonde once made tall trouble and men have never forgotten. Long before Christ they knew her as the fairest of all women, the one the Trojan Paris stole, for whom the Greeks fought ten long years. Brave warriors died for Helen. Brave poets since have spent their dearest words on her. She has been Menelaus' Helen, Paris' Helen; Homer's Helen, too, and the Helen of Herodotus, Euripides, of Kit Marlowe, Alexander Pope, Andrew Lang. Recently John Erskine, perspicacious professor at Columbia University, won fame with his Helen refurbished. Last week and for the first time...
Good taste, however, needed defense in the debate on the question of authorizing the Commission on Evangelism to cooperate with the United Commission on Evangelism of the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America. This authorization, it seemed to some who were opposed to official contact with the Council, would have brought the Episcopalians very close to the Council. Said onetime (1922-27) Senator-from-Pennsylvania George Wharton Pepper, of the House of Deputies: "The advantages of membership in this council are, to my mind, highly exaggerated...
Alexander and Maria Feodorovna became Tsar and Tsaritsa upon the assassination of his father, and reigned for 13 years. "Bull-Necked Alex" was then officially known as, "The Orthodox and Pious and Christ Loving, the Absolute Autocrat and Great Lord, Crowned and Elevated by God, Alexander Alexandrovich, Emperor and Autocrat of all the Russias...
...with lacunae. She deliberately made them. She would never tell her age (it was about 87), nor her girlish life, nor permit her elderly photograph be taken, nor tell the source or spending of the millions of dollars given her. Luxuriously she spent and lived. The First Church of Christ Scientist which she founded in Manhattan a generation ago, when Mrs. Mary Baker Glover Patterson Eddy was still her friend, cost $1,250,000. Next door is her splendid mansion. It cost scores of thousands. Each year since 1920 she spent more than $250,000. In five years she spent...