Word: fores
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...nomination for Governor of Nebraska this year. His method of anchor-swallowing last week, was to announce that he would support the Democratic ticket from the president down, for the following reason: "The Prohibition issue which I have objected to having injected into national campaigns was brought to the fore by the Republican party, in order to befuddle the public and lead them away from the real issue of the campaign, an economic issue . . . specifically, farm relief...
Edward of Wales had crossed the Channel for the occasion, but, though he was welcomed cordially, louder Belgian cheers rang out for Charles of Flanders. Even Britons were glad that this keen, upstanding Prince had been pushed to the fore by the fact that King Albert and Queen Elizabeth are now returning from Africa, after touring the Belgian Congo (TIME...
...grave of the late Rodman Wanamaker, who did much to further friendship between the U. S. and France. Men will do much to beautify that which they find most terrible ; thus the urn which is to contribute its comfort to Rodman Wanamaker's grave was fashioned by the fore most iron worker in the world and a great artist: Edgar Brandt...
Gaston Doumergue, President of the French Republic, last week inspected the eleventh annual French International Aeronautical Salon. He saw: French fighting planes, carrying machine gun nests fore & aft; U. S. airplane equipment, shipped by 20 firms, exhibited for the first time in a European aero show; German passenger and freight planes. He saw no German fighting planes, strictly forbidden by "he Treaty of Versailles...
...modern theatre began as a form for sermons as it is now a subject for them. Processions, pageants, performances -this was a slow, natural sequence. Not be fore the 1 5th century did audiences, growing more interested in the character of the customary devil than that of Christ, cause these moralities to lose their holy character. Dramatic interpretations of the gospels are not yet without their spiritual value. Last week, in Canterbury Cathedral at Canterbury, England, there was performed The Coming of Christ, a nativity play written in the antique tradition by famed Poet John Masefield...