Word: grew
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Meanwhile on top of the Knob in a huge circus tent crowded with a thousand guests, steaming with the warm smell of barbecue, Southern style, Uncle Alf held court. The baying of the hounds grew fainter outside. Uncle Alf rambled on until dawn, delighting the merrymakers with reminiscences. Scores of uniformed Negroes bustled about, serving the immense banquet to which ten sheep, ten pigs, 500 pounds of beef, had contributed. All "the fixin's" were there...
...grow sicker. But finally and mercifully transport him to a clean bed and a cheerful room in the American Hospital at Constantinople. He will then realize the special and comforting importance of that institution. He will understand, why, last week, the U. S. Ambassador to Turkey, Joseph Clark Grew, took care to conduct through the Hospital and its adjoining School for Nurses an august guest, his cousin, John Pierpont Morgan, who is now cruising in Turkish waters on his yacht Corsair (TIME, April...
Ambassador Grew has never minced words in declaring that the continued efficient functioning of the American Hospital is of vital import to the U. S. colonies in Constantinople and in cities of the Balkan and Asiatic hinterlands. Yet the hospital has faced a deficit for the past several years and can scarcely continue functioning through the present twelvemonth if financial aid is not speedily forthcoming from the U. S. Director Dr. Shepard of the Hospital and School has economized and scrimped. The nurses now in training who go out upon graduation to spread U. S. medical methods in Turkey...
...course of Icarus, they went through the air to Athens, the place he never reached. The little hills and the brilliant city grew into the darkness under them. They landed at six in the evening and had a bitter wine with their dinner. They made a journey which many a splendid army has made in two months; by the middle of the spring afternoon they were in Marseilles...
John Pierpont Morgan sailed into the Golden Horn near Stamboul, Turkey, on his yacht Corsair. His cousin, Joseph C. Grew, U. S. Ambassador to Turkey, had arranged to have the daughter of a onetime Governor of Jerusalem take Mr. Morgan on a Turkish sightseeing tour...