Word: lacings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Congress in 1936 opened a one-room office in Geneva, installed there as international secretary a 23-year-old British delegate, small, brown-eyed, comely Elizabeth Shields-Collins, daughter of an East Indian trader. Miss Collins and her collaborator. Michael Wallace, son of the late British Author Edgar Wal lace, did their work so well that to the second congress last week came youths from almost every important country, nearly every major church, every shade of political opinion. It claimed to represent 40,000,000 of the world's youth...
...means "Bird" in Albanian and King Zog I met his fiancée in his brightest gold-lace plumage. Apart from the facts that many a prominent Albanian family has sworn a blood feud against King Zog, that he has almost ruined his throat by oversmoking, until at one time he could talk only in guttural wheezes, His Majesty is a highly eligible bachelor...
Captain Russ Allen was carried off the field early in the second half with a torn ligament after having played an lace game. He is definitely out of the Army game and whether or not he will be able to return to the lineup before the end of the season is not yet known. Wilson, who suffered a shoulder bruise, is ready...
...more than $1,000,000, assets of between $600,000 and $800,000; in Chicago. Overseer Voliva, who eats Brazil nuts and buttermilk and believes the world is shaped like a soup-plate, has been trying to salvage his Zion Institutions and Industries Inc.-candy bar, cookie and lace factories, cement plant, bakery, bank, department store and publishing house-since 1933. Its assets were 87? in 1907, $10,000,000 in 1927, $6,000,000 in 1932. Subsequently Rev. Voliva tried to reorganize Zion Industries under Section 7/-B, failed, and likewise lost control of Zion City's theocratic...
Yonai. Smack next to the Prime Minister of Japan on such dress-shirt occasions as the formal opening of Parliament, sit the Minister of the Navy and the Minister of War. Other Cabinet officers form no more than a decorative background of gold lace. Since last February Japan's Navy Minister has been Admiral Mitsuniasa Yonai, or more formally Yoniuchi-a descendant of the samurai, member of the blue-blooded Satsuma clan and grandson of the extremely wealthy Baron Kentaro Okuma, developer of the South Manchuria Railway...