Word: orders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...committee if the present rate at which applications are being received is maintained the usual attendance of 1,000 or so will be equalled this year. If applicants desire to have their names included in the box list they must hand them in before Thursday of this week in order that the list may be printed by Monday...
...late Sunday evening; an automobile containing a man and his wife with their small child beside them is driving leisurely home from a Sunday holiday. Two men with sawed off shot guns step from the bushes and order the vehicle to halt. Thoughts of highway robberies, his family, a hundred dollars in his pocket, who knows what flash through the mind of the man at the wheel. Confused he hesitates before applying the breaks. Two shotguns blaze out, twenty-six slugs strike the side of the car, and the driver crumples over into his wife's lap, dead. Such...
...from dominated by professionals. Unknown to the public are numberless amateurs. They play a game of baffle among themselves. Some 500 members, amateur and professional, of the Society of American Magicians (total membership about 1,650), held their annual convention last week in Manhattan and brotherly baffling was the order of the hour. The magicians dined and danced. Then, in secret session, they baffled each other and exchanged secrets about new or improved apparatus, magicianly "patter" (conversation) and humor, the art of distracting the attention of the tricked from the trickery...
While merger meetings were being held throughout the land, representatives of six churches (Baptist, Protestant Episcopal, Methodist Episcopal, South, Society of Friends, Lutheran. Presbyterian) convened at Washington to discuss the report on Christian unity prepared in 1927 by the International Conference on Faith & Order at Lausanne, Switzerland. Next week, 100 nationally prominent laymen and clergy will meet at Buck Hill Falls, Pa., to discuss: "Next steps toward a united church." Last week's meetings...
...hand; the Stroud got it. This Stroud now fixed upon one Lady Isabel. Her eyes were of "green ice," her hair was golden. She glorified in an expressionless face and almost no lips. Such a woman he would not love, he thought, so much as love to own. In order to own her he sacrificed his cherished friend Stemway who had a "dark soul...