Word: headedly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...white with a golden breastplate, commanded the people to rise and sing Hen Whad Fy Nhadau. In purple raiment, Bard Prichard walked to the presidential chair, seated himself amid a circle of white-clad druids, poets in azure, orators in green. A golden diadem was placed upon his head. Above him the Archdruid raised a glittering sword. "Is there peace?" he asked. "Peace," was the thunderous old answer...
...labored long. They held eight men under indictment for selling forged medical degrees and Illinois medical licenses. Citizens of the State were not surprised to learn that the accused ringleader was W. H. H. Miller who, for irregularities in issuing doctors' licenses, had been ousted in 1922 as head of the State Department of registration and education...
Appointed. Professor John Shapley, head of the Department of Art of New York University; to be professor and chairman of the Department of Art of the University of Chicago...
...include the Hubbells, richest Iowa family after the Maytags (washing machines) of nearby Newton. The Hubbells own the $100,000,000 Equitable Life Insurance Co. of Iowa, and $15,000,000 to $20,000,000 of Des Moines real estate. Connecticut-born, lawyer-trained Frederick Marion Hubbells, 90, is head of the family. He acts as chairman of the insurance company. Two much younger Hubbells, Fred and Jim, financed and starred on the Des Moines polo team for several years...
...Jason had been a long baby, and had grown to six feet before he was eighteen. He was beyond that now, and so ashamed of it that he would never let himself be measured. ... But Rita [his sister] . . was all head. Her head had grown in and on to such bulk as only a giant could uphold, yet her body and her members were hardly larger than an infant's." Rita had a soul of "spiritual perfectness." To amuse Rita, Jason brings a trained seal from the nearby carnival. The seal's owner comes, too-Zarna, Diving Venus...