Word: namee
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Stalin" means "steel," a name bestowed by Lenin as an honorable nickname upon Joseph Dzhngashvili, now Joseph Stalin...
Welcome. Chairman Grover Whalen of the Mayor's Committee of Welcome and Mrs. Vincent Astor, personal representative of Mayor Walker of New York, boarded the Leviathan at quarantine from the municipal steamer Macon and welcomed Queen Marie in the name of the city. Followed J. Butler Wright, Assistant Secretary of State, on a revenue cutter to extend the President's greetings. A third delegation of "personal friends of Queen Marie," likewise on the cutter, included Judge ("U. S. Steel") Gary and Samuel ("Sam") Hill of Seattle, Wash., potent railroader, who extended to Queen Marie the invitation to dedicate...
world champion heavyweight boxer: "My engagement was rumored to a lady whose name appears in the Social Register. Said I: 'I don't even know a girl I could take to the theatre, let alone one I could marry...
Tyrus R. Cobb, Detroit baseball manager: "In the columns of able Journalist Clinton W. Gilbert, I noticed, recently, my name, coupled with that of Fielding Harris Yost, famed Michigan football coach. Commenting upon our oratorical support of Republican Congressman Robert H. Clancy, former Democratic Congressman, Mr. Gilbert graciously admitted that our advocacy helped defeat the sartorially notable Congressman John B. Sosnowski in Detroit's greatest Polish district. He wrote: 'Mr. Cobb commanded many votes among the masses. . . . Mr. Yost reached the intellectuals. His appeal was to the highbrows who follow the highbrow sport of football...
...called the Catholic* Congress of the Episcopal Church, all the proceedings being made to emphasize the omission from this title of the word "Protestant", which it is the high-roaders' ambition to have stricken from the official name of their Church. Milwaukee Presbyterians had placed one of their church buildings at the Episcopalians' disposal and here Bishop William Walter Webb of Milwaukee welcomed his brethren to the diocese in which "the first attempt at a religious order for men in the English Church after the Reformation was made"; the diocese which contains some of Anglo-Catholicism...