Word: folding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...become a surgeon, has played drunks for 20 years throughout the U. S. and the British Empire, but he never drinks. He has been a clown, an animal trainer, an acrobat; he worked from burlesque into comic leads in Broadway shows. Most celebrated of his comic assets are his folding legs. When he was on the road with Louis the Fourteenth he had to stumble down a flight of stairs. One night one of the stairs was missing and he broke his legs. U. S. doctors said he could never fold again, but Vienna specialists proved them wrong. In London...
John Benjamin Wesley (1703-91) founded the Methodist Episcopal Church but did not mean to. A conservative and a high Churchman, he lived & died a member of the Church of England. He vehemently inveighed against his followers who left the Anglican fold. But before his death the U. S. Methodists under his lieutenant Francis Asbury were already de facto a separate church; Wesley's demise legalized the divorce. Wesley was a gentleman and had a gentleman's education. At Oxford before he was converted he wrote verses envying Chloe's flea for its ability to roam Chloe...
...difficult at any time. Unusual obstacles arose which threatened to block this long-awaited deal. A peculiar situation was known to exist in Bank of the United States. In 1913 this bank was formed in Manhattan's lower East Side. By 1928 it had grown one thousand-fold without a merger. Then, after Goldman Sachs Trading Corp. acquired a large block of its stock, it began to whirl through a period of expansion. Since May 1929 it has lost one-fourth of its deposits; its shares have tumbled from $91 to $13. Recently it has been understood that officials...
...announced that he would resign as president of Fourth & First National Bank, retire. The combined banks will have total assets of $86.000.000, be second in the South only to First National Bank of Atlanta. The deal brings the control of 17 branches. 18 affiliated institutions to American National's fold, was viewed as the most constructive move during the troubled week...
With the return of the backfield stars to the fold, Harvard's supply of reserve backs should be ample for the Dartmouth game, while with the three veterans Ticknor, Talbot, and Trainer to strengthen the center of the line, the Harvard forward wall should be able to stave off the advances of the Big Green eleven...