Word: ens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pigeons arrived in Washington two days later, a second followed. A third flew into a wire en route, was injured, will recover. The fourth flew against the tower of a Methodist church in Virginia near the Capitol: "Dead in the line of duty...
...Sultan, Mulai Yusef, a big indolent man, who is supported by the French and Spanish as the puppet sovereign of Morocco. Venerable Moroccans were scandalized by his appearance at the fair en foot. Traditionally he should have arrived either on horseback or upon a portable throne, and heavily guarded in any case. Instead he dismissed his strapping Negro bodyguard at the gate of the fair and entered "practically unattended" - accompanied by only 32 Caids, four Pashas, two French Generals, and the French Resident General in Morocco, Jules Steeg...
...With no ready means of meeting each other en masse as classmates in the old sense, there remains the fraternity system as the only remnant of the older social Yale that contributes to solidarity and common interest. And how are these institutions functioning in this respect? It is obvious that, with classes running to over 500 men, they cannot be functioning in the old sense at all. We are speaking now of the Junior class situation. When there were 275 men in the Junior class there were three fraternities of 36 men each, and a fourth with 20, that...
...weeks ago Mrs. Kahn of California, one of the two widows* in Congress, made her maiden speech, (TIME, May 10). Last week, perhaps spurred on by Mrs. Kahn's reception, perhaps en-heartened because Mrs. Kahn had broken ground, the other Congressional widow, Mrs. John Jacob Rogers of Massachusetts, who last year was elected to the seat vacated by the death of her husband, made her Congressional debut...
Upon Chancellor Luther and Foreign Minister Stresemann fell the responsibility of uttering honeyed words to the hotel tourists en masse. Diffident hotel gentlefolk blushed as Herr Stresemann cried: "You are the world's leaders in your line of business, and, indeed, one may ask wherein Americans are not leaders...