Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There he is happy and contented, his keeper reports, sharing a pool in the center of a large cage with fellow alligators who have lived there for many years. Should he tire of his report relatives, two large white goose can help to while away the weary hours...
...great advantages of being brought up in the Greek Orthodox Church is that you have two birthdays-your own real birthday and your name day, the day in the Church calendar assigned to your patron saint. Last week cannons booming at dawn woke Bucharest to help celebrate little King Mihai's real birthday, his eighth. In, the ornate National Cathedral, His Majesty, proud of his first long trousers, marched up the aisle with green-&-gold Generals to hear a Te Deum, marched down again to review two squadrons of the royal bodyguard...
...Excerpts from a letter quoted by the New York Herald Tribune, from the president of an anonymous Southern college alumni association to a Manhattan alumnus, asking for help in ''caring for" a prospective footballer: "The man has already been picked by - and (coaches), and they say he looks mighty good. . . . We would be mighty glad if you would join us in helping us to raise the money needed, which is $600 . . . how about sending me a check...
...Gates last week gave his congregation jovial news. Said he: "Saints are everywhere. Everyone here is a saint. In visiting prisons I find saints. A saint is anybody in the world trying to do the best he can with the help...
...exigent early stop is Friedrichshafen where he must meet Dr. Dornier before the German leaves for Manhattan where, the middle of next month, he must confer with the directors of Dornier Corp. of America and help them get started manufacturing his monster seaplanes. At the Friedrichshafen meeting the German and the Hollander will discuss, among other practical things, the usefulness of fulfilling the promise which Dr. Dornier made last week-that next March or April he will send his huge Do-X flying across the Atlantic to demonstrate that heavier-than-air machines can be made as practical as dirigibles...