Word: madeira
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shadowy situations with the best actors he could hire on either side of the Atlantic. Forty-four-year-old Sir Cedric Hardwicke (youngest actor ever knighted) plays the witty Canon Skerritt, who glories in the forms of Catholicism, finds comfort in its intellectual discipline as he sips his old Madeira, calls his parishioners boobs, but achieves a state of grace through the faith of his kitchen slavey...
...among anthracite firms which went into the courts were the $94,000,000 Philadelphia & Reading Coal & Iron Co. and the $10,000,000 Madeira, Hill & Co. The former, a protege of Philadelphia's Drexel interests, has been historically associated with the Reading Railroad. Incensed over Philadelphia & Reading's record of losing $24,000,000 in surplus since 1932, Federal Judge Oliver Booth Dickinson cracked: "There is something radically wrong with the Pennsylvania anthracite industry that it can run up ... inordinately high prices of coal to consumers. The tendency has been for management to take far more than...
...From Madeira School in Greenway, Virginia, according to the CRIMSON correspondent there, comes the report that Miss Madeira, teaching a Bible class, commented favorably on the fact that "a group of Harvard boys are teaching other less fortunate boys...
Quoth schoolmistress Madeira, "It is a great step forward!" She said also that it was a pity that thre are boys who want to go to college, but can't afford it. "It is a disgrace to our country...
...summer cruise will take us to the Azores, Madeira, Tenerife, Cadiz and Tangier", he began. "At Tangier, most of my summer crew will leave the ship to return to college. Then, with five hands besides the cook, the bos'n and myself, we will start for San Francisco by way of Rio, the Horn and Valparaiso. The voyage should occupy about four and one-half months, and will quite possibly be the last westward passage around Cape Horn under sail...