Word: owning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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"There are those of us here on whom the Sovereign has conferred the most honorable Order of the Bath, the most exalted Order of the Star of India or the most distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George. Tonight I speak of-if I may call it so-the...
"I had a similar case once myself. Two Indians with me in British Guiana when we were about five days by canoe from anywhere, had their legs crushed and most certainly would have died within two days. I put them out of their suffering with morphine and was thanked by...
But troubles are not new to Mr. Mitchell nor has he often been bested by them. In 1898, a Junior at Amherst, he was troubled by his father's business failure, but got himself an assistant instructorship in public speaking and worked his way through his Senior year. In Chicago...
¶ For many months the Eastern consolidation struggle has resembled a chess tournament in which a master plays several opponents simultaneously. Shrewd, lean, aggressive William Wallace Atterbury of the Pennsylvania is the chess wizard. Three boards confront him. Behind one sits quiet-voiced Patrick Edward Crowley of the New York...
Critic Huneker's principal interests may not have been in the U. S., but his breezily enthusiastic criticism was undeniably native. Often blundering, always bold, he was a warm-hearted chronicler of adventure in the arts. Healthy exaggeration came naturally to him, made his sweeping statements sweep cleaner: "[Shaw] is...