Word: joined
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with the benches jammed, Honorable Members sat in the aisles, sat on the floor, hung over the balconies. Canon William Hartley Carnegie, who generally holds opening prayers in the House to rows of empty benches and a handful of earnest Christians, found 300 early M. P.'s eager to join him that after noon. Passes to the visitors' galleries were rare as rubies. In the peers' gallery barons, viscounts and belted earls sat in decorously on each other's laps. Edward of Wales, the earnest Duke of York and Prince George peered over the edge of the Royal Gallery...
...elder daughters. In Mr. Giannini's attempted comeback there is with out doubt a great deal of personal pride. He has, however, been shrewd enough to cover this. The fight began when a group of stockholders united to oust Mr. Walker. The Founder said he would join them if he were sure they wanted him. His entire attitude has been that he was accepting a "mandate" to "rededicate" himself...
...hammered relentlessly away at the thesis that Armies now overburden the world, that the quickest way out of the Depression is to reduce war forces and the taxes which support them. Though the U. S. has no sizeable army to cut (138,000 officers & men), the President consented to join the Geneva Conference in the earnest hope that the U. S. could somehow help other great powers agree to limit their soldiery. For U. S. participation he asked Congress for $450,000 as expense money. To represent the country he appointed a delegation of five: Charles Gates Dawes, Ambassador...
...women of Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick's Riverside Church (Rockefeller) in Manhattan were asked last week to join the Women's Bible Class and the Women's Society* in praying daily during February "that the Disarmament Conference in Geneva may accomplish much in devising plans which shall annihilate war and that Dr. Mary Emma Woolley may be divinely guided as she represents myriads of women who desire the peaceful settlement of all differences between nations...
...which bind him and stands forth a naked personality. And the Vagabond deals with the hearts of men from which the curtain of convention has been drawn aside. Slang and swearing, as they appear to a purist, should be crystallized emotional expressions. Regarded as such, the Vagabond can only join with his distinguished colleague and lament the passing of the giant oaths...