Word: held
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Times picturesquely described the ensuing confusion: "Election day dawned with no strong candidates of any party. Election day waned with no candidates developing any signs of sufficient strength to win. In fact, ten minutes before the final ballot any latecomer in the halls of Parliament where the election was held might, by a few well-chosen words, have obtained the victory...
...duty free. But Sculptor Brancusi's bird had neither head, feet nor feathers. It was four and a half feet of bronze which swooped up from its base like a slender jet of flame. Customs Inspector Kracke said it was not art; merely "a manufacture of metal . . . held dutiable at 40% ad valorem." The press bantered, jibed. Indignant modernists wrote abstruse, defensive paragraphs. Sculptor Brancusi complained to the Customs Court...
...fish collection. An astonishingly different interest of his was in arms & armor. He knew more about arms & armor than any man in this country and aimed to make the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art rank next after those in Paris, Madrid and Denver. Rarely has a man held active curatorship in two great museums, and of such separated fields. A few years ago he helped compile a bibliography of every written reference to fishes, from classical times to the present. It made three great tomes and brought him a National Academy of Science medal...
...present, that the older Anthony visited Dr. Floyd Tomkins, a Philadelphia divine, and said "I have seen the Great Light. . . ." He was given a Bible class of three men. Soon he inaugurated his own movement, designed to unite the ideas of Sport and of God. In 1912 he held a formal meeting at his Philadelphia house to organize formally "Athletic Christianity," so that any Bible class in the country could become a Drexel Biddle Bible Class and utilize his scheme for keeping young persons near to the churches...
...begs one of her many admirers to elope with her. Because she loved him, Lily Christine had married a smart model of English manhood, penniless gambler, cricketer, master of many mistresses. Lily Christine ignored these "pieces of nonsense," supplied her "old carthorse" husband with a constant friendship, and held the family together...