Word: forwardness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Jones has been known outside of Texas at least since 1917, when he worked with the Red Cross in Washington and Paris. But not until 1924, when he stepped forward to bear the brunt of the $220,000 convention deficit, was his importance widely appreciated. They at once let him have charge of National Democratic finances and then, last week, when the 1928 convention was being noisily auctioned in the Mayflower Hotel at Washington, they let Mr. Jones have his way. He happily produced his own certified check for $200,000 as Houston's bid. It led on all five...
...political promise, one rooster-boost. Wearing a new grey suit and looking not unlike Henry Ford, Mayor Lodge offered his right hand to all-comers. Policemen gripped so hard that Mayor Lodge, wincing but glad, had to give others his left hand. When subordinate city officials were brought forward for formal introduction, Mayor Lodge called them by their first names. He had known them well during his 17 years on the city council (nine years as president). Oldest residents came. Bankers, waiters, children and firemen came. The Mayor's niece came-Mrs. Evangeline Lodge Lindbergh. Detroit congratulated itself...
Arms sideways RAISE. He took each position as if to a bellowed command. Trunk forward BEND. He dipped way over the 'cellos. Sideways LUNGE. That was a pale little passage for the violins. Right arm upwards RAISE. It was for the tympanist to see him. Rotate the trunk and arms in regular count. That was for the full band. He postured this way and that, flung his body into a dozen foolish positions. For five minutes and more the audience sat in a smothered giggle. Critics were delighted to see a new conductor who would make good copy...
...some, not many, Anglicans; they were heard with sympathy but without encouragement by certain noted Catholic prelates, notably the late Cardinal Mercier. It was the latter who arranged the annual conversations at Malines, Belgium, the seat of his archbishopric, to which every June came many Anglicans to discuss and forward progress toward church unity...
...letter that at the time of writing his baggage and property of the Arnold Arboretum were in the hands of an gent of the Standard Oil Company, and that as soon as the road was open he would be able to ship the latter to Yunnanfu and from there forward it to Boston...