Word: persons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rubrics of his church provide that no person be given Holy Communion until confirmed or desirous of being confirmed. Said Dr. Tucker: "... I am only doing openly and permitting persons of other denominations to do .habitually what has been done sub rosa and occasionally for many years...
...horses. First the two-legged human horse; then the four-legged horse; then the iron horse; now the air horse. Conspicuous ' among air horses is the Wright Whirlwind motor, which propelled Lindbergh, Chamberlin, Levine,'Byrd, Maitland & Hegenberger, Brock & Schlee across sundry oceans and continents. A tactless person once asked the designer of the Wright motor why he did not receive more glory for making this horse for heroes. The designer's answer was brief: "Whoever heard of the name of Paul Revere's horse?" Not for his modesty but for "the greatest achievement in aviation...
Died. Aram J. Pothier, 73, social-minded Governor of Rhode Island, long in office (1909-15. 1925-27), first person of French-Canadian birth to become governor in any State; at his home in Woonsocket...
...Heart of a Clown, as every literate person knows, is breaking behind his smile. In this picture, a warmed over Swedish production, Gosta Ekman* as woebegone clown Joe Higgins, supplies an erratic but generally satisfying performance. The Haunted Ship is a mere ghost of famed Jack London's story, White and Yellow. A sea captain, detecting an amorous alliance between his wife and his first-mate, sets the former adrift in a boat and imprisons the latter in the hold of his ship. For 15 years the midnight ocean is made hideous by the howls and whinings...
...obviously no mean takes to choose from among many millions the four or five who qualify as "greatest", but it may be also true that a foreigner is the man best qualified to judge. One wonders who the fifth person will be to be honored by a place upon Dr. Ludwig's great all American Four or Five. In the four already chosen he has picked representatives of four types of eminence. Edison has served mankind. Jane Addams has helped save it. John D. Rockefeller represents genius and one kind of power. Orville Wright personifies Homeric daring. The fifth choice...