Word: marked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...prevented an attack on Handsome Adolf's life by three men who deposited three hand grenades and some ammunition near the Chancellor's Munich home. "If a single shot is fired against any member of the new Government," said the Police Chief, "even if it misses its mark, there will be unparalleled chaos and the greatest pogrom which no authority in the world could prevent...
...Schacht, then President of the Reichsbank and famed for his success in stabilizing the German mark in 1924 at its present gold value, predicted catastrophe if U. S. and other foreign loans continued to pour into Germany, did what he could (not much) to stem the flood...
...pulpit, was Rev. Homer Campbell, reading aloud the beginning of the New Testament, the gospel of Matthew. After a time he let a parishioner mount the pulpit, take his place, continue the reading. Day broke, the morning brightened, more worshippers drifted in, and still the reading went on, through Mark, Luke and John, into Acts. Fresh readers spelled tired ones every ten minutes. The words of the New Testament flowed on & on until 7:40 p. m., when the last words of Revelation were read, "The Grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all, Amen...
Such presbyteries as New York, Chicago, Baltimore and Westchester are considering reducing their quota of delegates by half. This excited valiant Dr. Mark Allison Matthews, pastor of the world's largest Presbyterian church (Seattle's First), whom his fellows call "The Tall Pine of the Sierras." An expert on church law, Dr. Matthews thundered: "No presbytery has a right to elect less than its full quota. . . . If there is not enough money for expenses, let them walk. If they cannot walk, then something is the matter with their feet as well as their heads. This is the time...
While the orchestra plays appropriate theme songs Sweeney Todd (R. B. Clement '32) pursues his business of murder while Mrs. Lovett (R. T. Frescoln '34), next-door bakeshop proprietress, manufactures tuppenny pies out of the corpses. Mark Ingestrie (W. McM. Heyl '33) is the sailor lad in love with demure Johanna Oakley (C. J. Fleming '33). It is Mark's pearls which arouse the avarice of the Fleet Street razor wielder and finally bring about his apparent demise via his own unholy chair. The Playgoer cannot assay to conduct his readers through the plot of a Victorian melodrama, but they...