Word: grottos
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...White & Blue, the hue all thoroughgoing U. S. citizens should logically be, includes such personages as Mayor William Hale Thompson, American Legion Commander Edward Elwell Spafford, Mrs. Ella Boole, John Roach Straton, Billy Sunday, Dr. Frank Crane, Elks, Grotto, Rotary, Lions. Moose...
...even a national convention of U. S. postmasters and postal supervisors last week at Niagara Falls, N. Y., made much popular impression. Newspapers that will lavish column after column upon Moose. Shriner, Grotto, Lion, Rotary, Yahoo, Wahoo and Hoohoo conventions, gave their old friends the postmasters scarcely a mention. Even the presence in Buffalo and the speech of Postmaster General Harry S. New were virtually ignored by local newspapers...
...Colloquial abbreviation for "How do you do?" Equivalent to Masonic-Grotto-men's "Hey, Prophet...
...Cleveland hotels last week, porters gathered up empty whiskey bottles, maids cleaned cigar stubs out of bathtubs, policemen went home to rest. The Prophets of the Grotto had left (see MISCELLANY, p. 19), and there were coming the Christian Endeavor young people, whose 31st international convention was immediately following that of the Prophets...
...grotto Ludwig made an unmitigated curse. He thought, or pretended to think, that the lighting never exactly reproduced the marvelous tint of blue for which the grotto of Capri is famed. Lights of every sort were tried. Finally enormous arc lights were installed, and in the confined space of the grotto workmen tending them were almost roasted. A courtier protested. "Stop!" commanded King Ludwig, "I don't wish to know how the light is made, I only care to see the effect. It is not right...