Word: langs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mansions of filmdom are still haunted. Of "ghosties and ghoulies and a lang-leggity beasties that go bump "in the night" there is no surcease...
Still smarting under the Mayor-elect's jibe, retiring Director Schofield among his last acts dismissed 228 policemen and promoted one patrolman to sergeant. That one was Charles P. Lang, whom Secretary Charles Francis Adams of the Navy dismissed from the Naval Reserve for wearing a U. S. uniform while making a liquor raid last July. "Lang," explained Mr. Schofield, "was made a martyr in the Navy and despite an honorable career was dismissed ... by a misguided and egotistic little whiffet...
...jargon of the platform . . . insensible to the dignity of the English liturgy. . . . Nothing could be better calculated to induce a spirit of national humility than the thought that such prayers could be authorized for use in public worship by the Archbishops of Canterbury and York." Most Rev. Cosmo Gordon Lang, 67, Archbishop of Canterbury, is, as his prayer suggested, a practical as well as a pious man. He calmly observed that the Depression prayer had merely been authorized. It had not been officially ap pointed for general use. Of the fact that Dean William Foxley Norris had an nounced that...
...Most Rev. Cosmo Gordon Lang Archbishop of Canterbury admitted authorship of a "highly romantic" novel in his youth. Said he: "Nothing would induce me to reveal the name of that dreadful book [written under a pseudonym]. I had forgotten all about it until Hugh Walpole mentioned it before a meeting the other night...
Drugs were used in successful treatment of 46 insane persons by Drs. H. Beckett Lang and John A. Pater son of Willard State Hospital, Willard. N. Y. Theirs was the first practical application of a recent Cornell University discovery that insanity is due partly to the colloids of the brain becoming too watery or too coagulated-like thick syrup. For watery colloids sodium amytal was given, for syrupy colloids sodium rhodanate...