Word: headedly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Gates is a close friend of Bishop Manning. Short, round, bespectacled, 63, with plump, mild face and greyish head, he dislikes to be called high-church, prefers "oldfashioned Episcopalian." He has been head of the parish of the Intercession more than 25 years. Born in Gardner, Mass., he is a graduate of Amherst (nine years before Calvin Coolidge), the General Seminary, St. Stephen's College. He is known as a good preacher, scholar of church architecture, president of the Sanctity of Marriage Society which seeks to keep divorced persons from remarrying in the Church, 32nd-degree Mason, national chaplain...
Exacting, sometimes exhausting, is the job of editing a national magazine. Editor Merle Crowell, head of the American Magazine since 1923, last week decided to obey long-disobeyed doctor's orders. He resigned his editorship, planned a long rest...
...pomp of "Hail to the Chief." In through the giant curved rolling door at the end of the building marches Rear-Admiral William Adger Moffett, chief of the Navy's bureau of aeronautics. With him are President Litchfield, Designer Arnstein, Commander Jerome Clark Hunsaker, who Drobably will head the Pacific Zeppelin Transport Co. (see col. 3). They mount a platform above the arc of the master ring. President Litchfield explains the ceremonies to spectators and microphones. Dr. Arnstein hands Rear-Admiral Moffett the gold rivet and a silver-plated hand riveting machine, which looks like a dentist...
Katie. "No one could have been more unselfish, more devoted. ... In the early years she took care of the children herself and did all her own washing, ironing and cooking. . . . She has always been head of the household and was christened by one of the children Chairman of the House Committee. . . . When I rose to speak, after I had her located, I felt I was all right. . . . She has openly proclaimed that she thinks I am the greatest man in the world...
Thurston is now Houdini. He describes his tricks, but never explains them. His most sensational "illusion" was chopping off a friend's head. Because women fainted he never repeated it. He is contemptuous of Oriental "magic." Out of three thousand fakirs he examined in India, not one had even heard of the rope trick. (A rope is thrown into the air, is mysteriously suspended while a boy climbs up it, disappears.) The easiest people to fool, says Thurston, are scientists, men-of-letters, psychologists. The hardest are lawyers and preachers because "they do not lose their poise" when invited...