Word: paule
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...gala affair by attending. Legislators and diplomats aplenty were in the house, but what most pleased President William Fox of the Fox Film Corporation and impressario Samuel Lionel Rothafel was the President's demonstrative enjoyment of third program, especially a revival of the Glow Worm number from Composer Paul Lincke's ballet Lysisprata...
Some 20,000 American legionaries paraded in Paris. Some 2,000 then attended banquets, ceremonies, convention sessions. Two of the 2,000 did practically all of the speechmaking?General John Joseph Pershing and National Commander Howard Paul Savage. It was their privilege and duty to reiterate many a time the official aims and loftiest sentiments of the Legion's "pilgrimage." Over and over they rephrased, genuinely and impressively, the ideals that sent the A. E. F. abroad, the French valor that it saw there, the friendships that it formed there, the faith that the Legion returned to pledge there...
Erect and martial, President Generalfeldmarschall Paul Ludwig Hans von Beneckendorff und von Hindenburg arrived at Tannenberg, East Prussia, there to unveil a War memorial to the soldiers who fell in the historic Battle of Tannenberg...
...winners. To while away time, Army flyers stunted over the field. Specks appeared in the eastern sky. The winner of the Class B race was C. W. Meyers of Detroit, flying a Waco plane. Twelve minutes ahead of Flyer Meyers had landed C. W. Holman of St. Paul, flying a Wright-motored Laird biplane. He was winner in the Class A race for larger planes over a similar course but, with fewer stops, had flown in two days instead of three. Mr. Holman's prize was $10,000. Fifteen planes started. Richard E. Hud son and his mechanic...
...Church, Brooklyn, the pastor of a flock of golden sheep, from whose charge he derived a yearly income of $20,000, even now a generous stipend for any preacher. No doubt Henry Ward Beecher deserved such recompense for his services; he was called the most eloquent preacher since St. Paul; women fainted when he shouted and roared. Not content with the homage he had already received, he must enlarge his influence; with this in mind he began to publish in a religious weekly, the Inde-pendent,* containing sermons or other miscellaneous notions. Scandal. On the staff of the Independent...