Word: hus
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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John Huss (he spelled it Hus) of Bohemia was tied to a stake in 1415. Hysterical peasants and zealous priests pointed to a pile of fagots at his feet, again asked him to recant his life's teachings. He replied with his eyes on the clouds: "God is my witness that I have never taught or preached that which false witnesses have testified against me. He knows that the great object of all my preaching and writing was to convert men from sin. In the truth of that gospel. . . I now joyfully die." The flames licked out his life...
...Rockefeller,* 87, played golf in Florida with Soldier Adalbert Ames, 91, last Union Army gen eral. And in Detroit, Soldier Roland, 100, came forward. To memoralize the death of Empress Charlotte, he had put on all his medals, for once he had been a colonel of lancers under her hus band, Maximilian...
...Pikeville. A wide-eyed, little girl and a strapping, handsome-though-freckled lad in his teens kissed their mother as she read the telegram. Mrs. Langley had reason to be proud. She had won the Republican Congressional primary, has no opposition for election to the seat lost when her hus band resigned. She told the press: "While I did not base my campaign on vindication and sympathy - that was proved two years ago by the re-election of Mr. Langley - at the same time I feel that it is a vindication of us. I based my campaign...
...Elizabeth Robins Pennell was a Phila delphia girl, born in 1855. Educated in a Paris convent and at Eden Hall (Torresdale, Pa.), she married Joseph Pennell in her 30th year. She is the author of a life of Mary Wollstonecraft and (with her hus band) of a life of Painter Whistler...
Before Columbus discovered America, long before Martin Luther was born, the fire had done its work, which was to burn to death Jan Hus (July 6, 1415). It was not the fire that made Hus a religious hero of Protestantism and a national hero of the country now known as Czecho-Slovakia; but such he became...