Word: kendrick
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Queen Marie disconcerted Mayor Kendrick by demanding to be driven through the most lurid section of Philadelphia's tenderloin to the small Rumanian Church of the Descent of the Holy Ghost...
Last week the French Government notified Mayor Kendrick of Philadelphia that certain pictures which he had asked for were being shipped from the Louvre for exhibition at the Sesquicentennial. Very few of the people who will see these pictures displayed on the walls of the exposition buildings are likely to find them unfamiliar; they are pictures that have adorned, in reproduction, millions of book-plates, art calendars, folios, and frontispieces. There is Whistler's restrained and noble picture of his mother, the old lady folded in silence like the fall of her quiet dress, hearing voices fade, footsteps pass...
Mayor W. Freeland Kendrick of Philadelphia: "Last week I made an announcement which surprised no one. I stated that the Sesquicentennial International Exposition is a financial failure, that operating deficits run between $25,000 and $40,000 weekly, that contractors are due more than $3,000,000 for construction and other work, that concessionaires want the Exposition reopened next year. Said I: 'While we should have had 25,000,000 people in attendance, we have had fewer than...
Frank B. Kellogg, Secretary of State: "Last week in Philadelphia as I rode in the tonneau of an automobile with Mayor Kendrick of Philadelphia, one Edward Davis, 67, darted into the traffic. We struck him, knocked him down, injured slightly his forehead. Chauffeur Eugene Stevenson was arrested, but the Mayor and I were not molested...
...been passed. Disrobing that night, with Treasure Island open on the dresser, Higbie had difficulty disentangling his feet from his pant-legs without taking his eye from the page. He ceased trying and the snarl lay about his bony ankles, his shirttails waving free, until the book was finished. Kendrick Glasby, star reporter of the local daily, upon whose stalwart young person was concealed a sere little volume in calf called Histoire des Pirates Anglois, with a marker at the tale of fearless Mary Read, entered the gathering whirl of events through another card of Hiltonshurley Moggs, thrown away...