Word: cornelius
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Council, was about to announce results of a ''Thank Offering" collected among the women when suddenly a plain churchman whom few recognized leaped up, strode to a microphone before the high altar. As Presiding Bishop James De Wolf Perry looked on with amazement from his throne, Rev. Cornelius Polhemus Trowbridge of Salem, Mass, cried: "I am not Franklin, but I am a minister of Christ. I have the permission of the Bishop of New Jersey to make a brief statement. I feel . . . that the contribution [$5,139] made at yesterday's magnificent opening service was entirely inadequate...
...attempt to set a spinnaker, let Rainbow get away first as usual. The only moment thereafter when Rainbow was in danger of losing her lead was when her parachute spinnaker split, halfway out on the 15-mi. run to leeward. She broke out a new one quickly, rounded General Cornelius Vanderbilt's yacht Winchester, used for the halfway mark in the absence of a buoy, five minutes ahead of Endeavour. She matched every effort the challenger made in a tacking duel on the beat home and crossed the line almost a mile ahead, needing only one more victory...
...Europe, it is a fashionable sport. One of the three drivers killed at the Monza Autodrome last year was Count Czaikowski of Poland, whose car overturned and burned when it skidded in the middle of the track. Same day Whitney Straight, cousin of Cornelius Vanderbilt ("Sonny") Whitney, narrowly missed death when his car skidded on an oil spot. Only U. S. driver entered at Monza last week, Whitney Straight finished ninth, in a Maserati...
...Roosevelt. Three members of the Class of 1938, among them the youngest son of the President, bear the Roosevelt name. The three new additions to Harvard's Roosevelts are John, President Roosevelt's youngest son, Kermit Jr., son of Kermit Roosevelt and cousin of Theodore III '36 and Cornelius '37, and Henry Parrish Roosevelt. Already in college in addition to Theodore, III, and Cornelius is Franklin D. Roosevelt...
...withdrawn because of a wrenched knee. Last week Cavalcade was disappointingly scratched also, when his trainer decided a bruise on his right front foot would not heal in time to permit him to run. This left the race open to such candidates as Morton L. Schwartz's Observant and Cornelius Vanderbilt (''Sonny") Whitney's Roustabout...