Word: lent
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Roman Catholics and the more ritualistic Protestant denominations (Episcopal, Lutheran, Reformed), however, not content with such informality, celebrate Ash Wednesday as their beginning, the Roman Catholics having their foreheads marked crosswise with the ashes of palms used on Palm Sunday of the previous year. Then for 40 days of Lent-a Teutonic word originally meaning spring-they turn their thoughts with especial pains towards their religion...
With the titular color that the records of the two teams lent to the game, the play was hard, and speedy, and kept the Arena in an uproar. The visitors started with a rush, and with the Fryberger brothers leading fierce charges down the ice, time and again pierced the Crimson defense. Only the stellar work of Morrill at goal saved more than one Green counter in these opening minutes...
...Baden, Germany. His father, a prosperous brewer, came to the U. S. in 1857. George Ehret learned his trade young. He knew all about brewing and cooperage when he went to work for Anton Hupfel in Manhattan. In six years he became Hupfel's master brewer, and Hupfel lent him enough money, combined with what he had saved, to start a brewery of his own. George Ehret called it the Hell Gate Brewery. It was his ambition to make the best lager beer in the U. S. Fire burned down the Hell Gate Brewery. George Ehret built...
...thought had turned the Holy See against him-Aristide Briand. Reputedly, Foreign Minister Briand has made an agreement with the Vatican of which one clause is that it shall discourage the obstreperousness of Catholic Royalists in France. As quid pro quo M. Briand is said to have lent his influence upon the side of the Papal candidacy of Archduke Otto for the throne of Hungary (See HUNGARY...
...Elevatorman Herman, what did they think of 101 examples of the same casuistry on a scale too large to be obvious? What did they think of newspapers like the Cleveland Times, which routed out an aged invalid lady, trundled her around the city in a motor car eagerly lent and frequently mentioned in the subsequent sob-story, named shops and hotels which elaborately displayed their wares and hospitality to her and the Times reporter, and trundled her home amid a short-hand account of her boundless gratitude to all the super-generous publicists concerned? What did they think...