Word: convert
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...these enterprises are connected with Wall Street. Biddle, along with social register companions, was accused only a fortnight ago of sharing with Mayor Walker a plot to convert the dismal restaurant which now sits like a spider, webbed with paths, at the centre of Central Park, into a civic banquet hall, thus encouraging patronage and improving the circumstances of the waiters who are employed there by the present lessee, Theatrical Zitell...
...which will be needed eventually though not immediately. Let these programs then be held in abeyance, said the collaborators, until such time as labor and fiscal indices show or predict a slump, local or national. Then let the contracts, hire the men, buy the materials, do the public work, convert the slump into a boom...
...demonstration of the theory that money makes morals-complete with characters, including: one Millionaire; one Earl's Daughter or Millionaire's Wife; their Son, an imbecile sample of Young England; their two Daughters, one beautiful of face, one a Major in the Salvation Army, who tries to convert her father; two Suitors, a noisy Nitwit and a Professor of Greek who becomes by the odd and engaging circumstances of the plot, heir presumptive to the Millionaire's munition works and who, by the odd and engaging developments of the thesis, is not thereby deprived of the affections...
This last-named is a convert from musical comedy, and does himself proud on the now seldom silent screen. Joe is known principally for his mouth, the largest in captivity. It extends from ear to ear and part way back again...
...Calvert Associates were chartered in 1922 under the New York State laws as an educational society. Their leader is Michael Williams, convert to Roman Catholicism, editor of The Commonweal. Profits made by the Calvert Associates from the sale of their books, etc., are applied to the promotion of religious liberty, more specifically to the dissemination of honest information regarding the Church of Rome. Among its directors are many famed non-Catholics, such as Maj. Gen. Robert Lee Bullard (retired), Architect Ralph Adams Cram, Nicholas Murray Butler, Dr. Henry Van Dyke, Louis Wiley, Gen. Lincoln Clark Andrews. Also there...