Word: masses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...That he had awarded a contract at Northampton, Mass., to a firm whose bid was $27,000 higher than that of another bidder. Forbes testified that the higher bidder promised to perform the job in 60 days, the lower bidder in 120 days, that winter was approaching and it was necessary to get the contract completed...
...impulse to elaborate church ceremonial has swept France since the War. Some churches have introduced a fanfare of trumpets at the mass as in the days of the Kings. Many musical novelties occur...
...full of lies." Many journalists damn it, saying: "There are no great editors left." Rising, gray-haired and aged, to be sole defender of the press, comes a representative of a former generation of journalists. He is Talcott Williams, a newspaperman for 50 years in Springfield, Mass., Manhattan and Washington-an authority on Turkish affairs (he was born in Turkey) and now, in his 75th year, Director and Professor Emeritus of the School of Journalism of Columbia University...
...conference closed next day with a mass meeting in the crypt of the Capitol, celebrating the 75th anniversary of the equal rights movement. Mrs. 0. H. P. Belmont in addressing the group declared...
Queen Victoria. Every now and again a biographical play comes along and settles comfortably in the center of the bull's-eye. Then for a space a mass of playwrights whose aspirations exceed their acumen present passing glimpses of every spectacular individual in the terrestrial pageant. Usually the results are terrible. Notable exceptions are Disraeli, Abraham Lincoln, Queen Victoria...