Word: pathe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Glenn Cunningham, holder of the world's record for the mile, took a wife a year ago, he has not run so fast as he used to. Last fortnight in a slow race in Boston he beat Cornell's Joe Mangan only by swerving out into his path at the finish...
...ranking national champion, Joseph L. Lewis of Dorchester, neatly walked away with first honors in the Saturday Olympic tryout. A star in the fencing world since his days as M. I. T. intercollegiate ace in 1926, Lewis displayed a flashy Italian style to defeat all in his path...
With President Lazaro Cardenas and the Socialist Mexican Cabinet evidently in mind, the Archbishops & Bishops closed with a prayer beseeching Jesus Christ "to illuminate those who have the grave responsibility of watching over the welfare of the nation, so that, leaving the path of error which leads only to degradation and misery, they may give the true guarantees and liberties which we need to achieve the peace, tranquillity, culture and prosperity of our beloved country...
...however, Shirley Tapp awoke that night after 143 hours of coma. Said she: "I seemed to be standing on a cloud, with the earth far below me, and I had a glimpse of Heaven. There seemed to be a veil. I saw God walking toward me on a white path. There was a veil between us. I saw little Jimmie Kilgore [son of Doss who died six years ago]. He was dressed in white and had white hair. He seemed to be picking flowers on a mountain pathway...
...readers Letters to Harriet will bring many a whiff from the plushy past. Hoosier-born (1869), William Vaughn Moody worked his way through Harvard, went on into graduate pastures, then started the climb to Parnassus by the academic path. It was while he was teaching English at the University of Chicago that he met "Harriet," who kept alive the torch of culture by all-night literary conversaziones around a lakeshore bonfire. When his drudged-out textbook's success set him free to travel and write for himself, Moody and Harriet kept their friendship going by mail. His letters were...