Word: makin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Just as modest was Norman J. Makin. newly appointed Speaker of the Australian Parliament. At news of his appointment he summoned reporters, announced that he would follow the precedent of previous Labor Speakers and wear neither wig nor robes in Parliament...
...refusers: Boston's Henry Knox Sherrill, Spokane's Edward Makin Cross, Manhattan's Russell Bowie, St. Louis' William Scarlett, Samuel Smith Drury of St. Paul's School (Concord...
...highways and hedgerows of the U. S., as well as the fashionable avenues, have been combed to find a bishop coadjutor for the Episcopal diocese of Pennsylvania. Four were asked, four refused. Rector Henry Knox Sherrill of Boston's Trinity Church preferred to stay in Boston. Bishop Edward Makin Cross of Spokane, who was supposed to have relations in Philadelphia who would make that city attractive to him, preferred to stay in Spokane. Rector Russell Bowie of Grace Church, Manhattan, declined next, and then Dean William Scarlett of Christ Church Cathedral, St. Louis. The situation was beginning to suggest...
Second was the Bishop of Spokane, the Rt. Rev. Edward Makin Cross, tall, slender and grey-eyed. Last week he was 49. Bishop Cross sent his regrets to Philadelphia because-he preferred to remain in Spokane...
...wave of his hand but at St. Augustine's tomb he says: "Plumb out of date, the whole business . . . I'm talkabout the whole possetucky? the whole kit-an'-boodle. . . . The human race has got to make progress. . . . The Almighty doesn't care a nickel about anything except our makin' that progress. . . . The kind He patronizes are the boys that got the plans, all ready for a bigger and better city the morning after the earthquake...