Word: felted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thus wrote Thomas C. Darst, Bishop of East Carolina, in a message to the Protestant Episcopal Church released last week by the National Commission on Evangelism. These simple words, he felt, should be found in the heart of every true Episcopalian. Nor was the utterance mere lip-service, for Bishop Darst himself, released by his diocese, will soon tour the U. S. preparing the way for the great Episcopal crusade, a crusade for 100,000 new communicants...
Twenty-two years ago, two souls felt the lure of the Gobi Desert. The girl went as missionary; the man as explorer of the mysteries of Mongolia. The girl heard of the man and came unto his camp in the garb of a male. Her sex was discovered; love kindled. A Belgian missionary married them; two years they wandered honeymooning, unseen by white man. They returned to France and the fickle adventurer abandoned his desert mate and their little daughter, Pauline...
...portents; but apparently Mr. Coolidge had. The Chief Executive, perhaps annoyed by the fiascos of his followers in North Dakota, Illinois, Oregon, Iowa, perhaps unwilling to court a possible strike-out in his native state, evidently refused to support his cousin. . . . Mr. Stickney made an announcement. He had not felt well lately. In the fall, he would...
...between its principal cities. Officers of state invariably fly hither and thither to great public functions. But Mayor Boess-though, of course, he has a motor, a motor boat, and ample public money for his railway fare, when he wished to go, say, to the Leipzig fair- has lately felt almost medieval without a smart monoplane and liveried pilot...
...Egyptian. At Santa Barbara, 3-year-old Colin Orr perished beneath a tumbling chimney. The town of Padang, Sumatra, collapsed in one thundering crash. Cairo reported over 4,000 houses in ruins. In Crete, the worst damage was demolition of archaeological treasures, especially at the Museum of Candia. Germany felt several shocks; also France, Italy, Southern Rhodesia and the seismograph at Georgetown University (Washington, D. C.). Studying their charts of the globe's temblor areas, scientists had no explanation for the simultaneous shuddering of such widely separated portions of the terrestrial crust, save that earthquakes are all due, ultimately...