Word: hughes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Proposal. Chief Delegate Hugh Simpson Gibson, U. S. Ambassador to Belgium, proposed...
...Bible class members had worked themselves into hysteria, declared the deacons. They had been practicing Pentecostalism assiduously, vehemently. In the description of Reporter Hugh O'Connor of the New York Herald Tribune, "prayer meetings continued late into the night, with men and women intoning Scripture, chanting hymns and imploring the Holy Spirit with ardent cries to come into their souls-at times even falling to the floor of the church and lying outstretched on their backs, rigid, while their lips streamed mystical sounds, supposed to duplicate the 'Gift of Tongues,' such as accompanied the coming...
...widow. At home again, Mary Hansyke goes into her uncle's shipyards, watches the tall clippers she has built swing through the harbor of Danesacre to the wide sea; her worship of lovely ships is a more compelling idolatry than that which she offers her second husband, Hugh Hervey. She loves him deeply, but, since love and ship-building touch in her the same depths, ship-building more perfectly satisfies her sense of command. Just after her marriage...
...Hugh Jaynes, for 31 years proprietor of the People's Meat Market of Pierre, presented the President with a buffalo roast. The roast was certified as pure and wholesome by Game Warden O. H. Johnson. Mr. Jaynes had previously given President Roosevelt a similar buffalo roast, remembered that President Roosevelt had expressed keen enjoyment of it. A cowpuncher also presented the President with 18 Chinese pheasants, hoped that they would be served at the first Custer Park meal. ¶Though making frequent car-end appearances at various brief stops, the President said hardly a word, left greeting-acknowledgments largely...
...George Kelley, Francis Frisch. But he also knew enough to spend fortunes to buy other teams' luminaries. He began his high-priced acquisitions in 1908 by paying $11,000 for Richard Marquard. In later years the price went up-$50,000 for "Irish" Meusel, $100,000 apiece for Hugh McQuillan, David Bancroft, Henry Groh. Said Manager McGraw: "You can't bring the money into the box office without spending some of it first." Last week, approaching the celebration of his Silver Anniversary as Manager of the Giants, Mr. McGraw was having troubles. His team, even though...