Word: grounded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...mysterious "reasons" were alleged by the Fascist press to focus upon a project for developing San Remo as a mulcting ground for foreign tourists, while Italian gambling continues rigorously suppressed elsewhere...
...Chapel rose slowly. Dr. Burk wrote books about Valley Forge, founded the Valley Forge Historical Society and became its president. In 1911 he left his large Pennsylvania parish to organize one for his new Chapel. Dr. Burk worked hard for 17 years. A few weeks ago he announced that ground for the $10,000,000 National Washington Memorial Church will be broken on Feb. 22; if the work moves forward as it should, the Church will be finished in 1932, on the 200th anniversary of George Washington's birth...
...favored by the kindly attention of wealthy and leading parishioners that their children enter the highest social life.' 11. They are often able to save money, especially when, 'through the kindness of financial leaders who are on their church boards,' they are let in on the ground floor on good investments. 12. The pension fund (Episcopal) will soon insure a comfortable income in old age. 13. 'The greatest joy of the ministry, however, has nothing to do with its financial compensations; it is the fact that it is his life work to make...
...Moran was brought from the Sing Sing death house last week for a new trial. They took him to a jail wherein one of his enemies, William Reid, had been locked up for a minor offense. Hearing that "Red" Moran was coming, William Reid quietly took a spoon and ground its handle until it was as sharp and keen as a knife...
...HIGH GROUND ? Jonathan Brooks ? Bobbs Merrill ($2). Liberally educated in all the finer shades of political corruption, U. S. newsreaders have a ready sympathetic throb for the lone graft fighter. To Author Brooks such a figure looms so large that he ventures to draw the picture of an upstanding, small-city editor with solemn, biblical strokes. James Andrew Marvin, lonely Honest Man, is presented through the reverent chronicles of his five children (Matthew, Mark, Luke, John and Ruth). He emerges hard-hitting, high-minded, bad-tempered. Fighting heavily, with more goodwill than technique, he is defeated time...