Word: elder
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Among them: J.P. Morgan the Elder, Columbia University's Seth Low, Financier Robert Fulton Cutting. *Who once observed, in an address to the New York Lutheran Ministers Association: "In the Episcopal Church the bishop is an interesting decoration. We must have someone around to say grace at banquets...
...Among them: J. P. Morgan the Elder, Columbia University's Seth Low, Financier Robert Fulton Cutting...
Married. The Hon. Patricia Edwina Victoria Mountbatten, 22, great-great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria, elder daughter of Viscount Mountbatten, suave Admiral of the Royal Navy, wartime Supreme Allied Commander in Southeast Asia; and John Ulick Knatchbull, seventh Baron Brabourne, 21, son of the late Governor of Bombay and Bengal; by the Archbishop of Canterbury, in the presence of King George, Queen Elizabeth, the Duchess of Kent, attended by Bridesmaids Princess Elizabeth, Princess Margaret, Princess Alexandra; in Romsey, Hampshire, England...
...never been anything colorful about me. I've just had to work like the devil." This is an accurate appraisal. The most colorful thing about him is his Army cussing. When the members of the First Presbyterian Church of Washington, Pa., wanted to make him an elder, he demurred. "I take a highball and cuss a little," he explained. They elected him anyhow. Actually he drinks very little, smokes not at all. His gravelly throat is the result of his gassing...
Although a large force of men are employed each night to sweep up the cigarettes, the Yard presents a tempting nicotine dump for the greater part of the day. To squelch ugly rumors that elder squirrels are about to report this condition to the A.S.P.C.A. and the Sanitation Department, we must begin a campaign to eliminate the cigarette from squirrel culture. Several plainly marked, strategically placed butt cans and a conscientious effort on the part of the student body to keep their cigarettes off the ground would save the squirrel from the fate of the buffalo...