Word: locust
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This is the first revision of the Prayer Book since 1892.* The revisory commission, appointed by the General Convention, is headed by the Rt. Rev. Charles Lewis Slattery, Bishop of Massachusetts, who ranks as a moderate liberal. Rumors that John Pierpont Morgan, Senior Warden of St. John's, Locust Valley, L. I., heavy contributor to the diocese of New York, is to pay the publication costs are unfounded. What Mr. Morgan will pay for is a limited edition, on heavy paper, large type, handset, to be distributed to Bishops and deputies to the General Convention...
Charles Augustus Stone lives during the winter on Fifth Avenue, Manhattan; during the summer at Locust Valley, L. I. He is a tall, spare man with hair that has turned almost white except for a black border along the neck. When he speaks of the company's activities, he invariably says, "Mr. Webster and I" or "Stone & Webster," never uses the first person pronoun alone. He likes yachting and tennis, but his chief avocation is breeding horses on his stock farms in Virginia and New Hampshire...
Died. Mrs. Lavinia Abercrombie Lovett, wife of famed Chairman Robert Scott Lovett of the board of the Union Pacific Railroad; in Locust Valley...
Married. Elizabeth Stettinius, daughter of Edward R. Stettinius, partner, until his death in 1925, of J. P. Morgan & Co.; to Juan Terry Trippe of Manhattan, president of the Pan-American Airways, the Atlantic Gulf Carribbean Airways and the Southwestern Air Lines; at Locust Valley, Long Island...
...spot where the platform stood and you will imagine me standing here. Say, Jesus, I'm through in St. Louis. Though I never walk the streets of St. Louis again in the flesh, I shall walk them in the spirit. Often in spirit I shall come to the Locust street entrance of the Coliseum, where those fine policemen have met me for seven weeks. . . ." Billy Sunday reached for his overcoat and let the converts come up to him through a trap door in the stage...