Word: foundered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Woolworth Co. has also acquired the famous Woolworth Building on Broadway, Manhattan, out of sentiment to the founder and also because the company's headquarters has long been located there. At the death of the late Mr. Woolworth, the building bearing his name was held by the Broadway-Park Place Co., which Mr. Woolworth owned. The shares of the latter passed to the Woolworth estate. By the sale of the Woolworth Building, ownership is now transferred to the thousands of stockholders in the F. W. Woolworth Co. all over the country and even abroad...
...Metropolitan Museum (Manhattan) acquired and placed on exhibition a ceiling that is regarded as a major work of Tiepolo, one of the leaders of the later Venetian school. The ceiling was painted in the latter half of the 18th Century for the Barbaro family, and glorifies Francesco Barbaro, founder of the family and defender of Brescia from the Duke of Milan. This work was done during Tiepolo's mature period after he had completed his famous decorations in the palace of the Archbishop of Wurtzburg...
Reported engaged. Prince Viggo, 30, fourth son of Prince Valdemar of Denmark, to Miss Eleanor Margaret Green of Manhattan, great granddaughter of Peter Cooper, founder of Cooper Union. To marry Miss Green, the Prince renounced all rights to the Danish throne, for which he is eighth in direct male line since his brother Erik relinquished his claim. Miss Green and her father, Dr. James O. Green, emphatically denied the report of an engagement...
...early Christian era, the telling of miraculous stories about the Founder and propagators of our highly estimable religion had an effect, almost equally miraculous, in the winning of converts--much as the modern missionary finds them useful to overcome the impassiveness of the unbeliever. To the untutored masses of the Empire, it was not a question of Mohammed going to the Mountain to be convinced, but rather of the Mountain coming to Mohammed in order to convince him by a material display of power. Never having been acquainted with even the possibility of such a higher life as the spiritual...
...death, in 1878, Godwin returned as editor. Three years later Henry Villard, the railroad builder, bought the paper. Under him as editors were Carl Schurz (hero of the German revolution of 1848, and one of those who helped to nominate Lincoln in 1860), and E. L. Godkin (founder of The Nation, and generally admitted to be the ablest literary critic of his time, although his trenchant pen also turned to politics). Godkin's largest reputation was gained in the bitter and successful fight that he made against Tammany-he was a "fighting editor." After Schurz and Godkin, followed Horace...