Word: elgin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fine Professions." When the Rev. Jesse Pindell Peirce came to the First Congregational Church of Elgin, Ill., writes Randall, he gave each member of his congregation a "get-acquainted statement" which included a request that for funerals "the casket be not opened in the church if the service is held there, and that the casket be closed in every case before the service begins if the service is held elsewhere. Christians do not glorify the body, which does not inherit eternal life, but the spirit, which does." Peirce further suggested "that the family not allow itself to be coerced into...
...Philip went to a German school at Salem, near the Lake of Constance. Every time he saw a Nazi salute he laughed; his nervous German relatives sent him back to the Mountbattens in London. Philip never learned Greek or Danish, and at Gordonstoun, a public school near Elgin, Scotland, he became thoroughly British...
...Elgin, they tell how one day Dick Clelland, the barber, lost his temper. Clelland, tired of having boys mess up his shop window with dirty fingers, rushed out, razor in hand, and kicked a boy who was waiting for a bus. Prince Philip turned and asked: "Pray, sir, for what do I receive this kick?" (At least, that is what Morayshiremen, who know how a Prince ought to talk, say Philip said...
Alexander K. Ogioblin, of 410 Ball Street, Elgin, Illinois, a graduate of Elgin High School...
...underselling Swiss have since held on to the biggest share of the domestic market. But Elgin may supply the new spring metal ("Elgiloy") to other watchmakers if they want it. Elgin believes it has enough bounce to put the U.S. on top again-and strength enough to keep it there...