Word: gainful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...George V, R. I., is naturally harassed by artists anxious to paint his portrait and gain fame and pelf thereby. Recently Artist Richard Jack, R. A., failed to persuade His Majesty to grant a sitting, but was graciously allowed the loan of a sword, a field marshal's uniform on which were pinned many orders, and a cape-all indisputably fresh from the royal wardrobe. Thus encouraged, Artist Jack slapped these accoutrements upon canvas in an attitude "regally erect," which was reported to "make the King seem unusually tall and commanding." Pleased, His Majesty inspected it last week, deigned...
...despatches to Congress to balancing the services that we have given the U.S. with an exaggerated exposition of the advantages that the Revolution procures for us. He gives an account by the rule of profits and losses, and he concludes from it that it is we who gain the most. Undoubtedly these constant efforts to disparage us must produce their effect on an assembly which forms its opinion of foreign powers mainly on the reports sent by its Ministers in Europe...
...upon the members of the team which he would match against the English stickmen, due largely to the fact that every position is being hotly contested. It is probable that during the game, provided the British team agrees, substitutions will be made in order that all men possible can gain practical experience. Substitutions, which are not permitted according to English rules, will probably be allowed this afternoon...
...Which makes me think (don't laff at that) about Mister Guffblawin. He gets worse and worse. He said yesterday why don't you eat your lunch before coming to which joke ha, ha, I said we call it brekfast in the better circles which held him to no gain and I walked. And the braves are coming back soon, did you know it. Alma has a cousin which is on them, though I bet he don't know half the brave stuff she does. Have you ever here her talk to a cop. I said once Alma was your...
Methodist congregations gained most, 220,183, which made the total membership 8,920,190, somewhat greater than the Baptists count, somewhat more than half of the Catholic Western bodies. The Catholic gain, as shown in the following table, was less than in recent years, chiefly because of the restriction of immigration from Catholic countries. The increase of other denominations grew from the spirited evangelical activities of the year and, doubtless, also from the religious thought induced by the current fundamentalist-modernist and religion-evolution controversies...