Word: palmful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...palm up, begging gratuities for ourselves...
...saints. . . . There is no one that we welcome with more outstretched arms than we do you." They heard Bishop Dunn read a cablegram of blessing from Pope Pius XI, adding "I am thrilled to my very soul. . . ." Then the 4,000 Negroes went to a communion breakfast at the Palm Garden, Eighth Avenue...
...garden party at Buckingham Palace Queen Mary espied famed Helen Adams Keller, blind & deaf leader, asked that she be presented. Through Miss Keller's companion, who tapped the message into her palm, Her Majesty said: "I am so glad you were able to come to our party. . . ." In the August Atlantic Monthly Author Keller poked fun at Big Business by picturing a tycoon in complete charge of his household. The tycoon begins by baking ten cakes at once rather than let oven-heat go to waste, then coaxes his children to eat more than is good for them...
Cobourg, Ontario, the son of a laborer. He went to France with the 69th (which became the 168th Infantry) as its chaplain and later was commissioned a Major. For bravery under fire Father Duffy received the Distinguished Service Cross, the Distinguished Service Medal, the Croix de Guerre with Palm; he was made a member of the Legion of Honor, cited for valor. He was called "the ideal army chaplain and the ideal parish priest" by Patrick Cardinal Hayes. Said Father Duffy: "If anybody sticks a pin into me, he'll find that I'm very American, very Irish...
...late great William Jennings Bryan, champion of Prohibition. Representative Ruth Bryan Owen of the Atlantic Coast district from Jacksonville to Key West had declared for a referendum before she started to campaign for Democratic renomination. That, however, did not save her from being defeated by Mark Wilcox, West Palm Beach attorney, who strenuously advocated the quickest possible repeal of the 18th Amendment. Mrs. Owen announced she would resign her House seat after the November election, instead of serving out her term to March 4, because she did not believe in "lame ducks" continuing to hold office...