Word: pilgrimate
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...erred in his manufacturing policy. When, last year, youthful Sherman Mills Fairchild retrieved his Kreider-Reisner Aircraft Co. Inc. and aerial camera companies from Avco, the corporation retained the Fairchild airplane factory at Farmingdale, L. I. and proceeded to build a new single-engine mail-&-passenger plane called the Pilgrim. This manufacturing operation, said Mr. Coburn's critics, was extravagant. The plane, they said, is already obsolete. Others found fault with the president's insistence on burdening himself with detailed responsibility (by which he threatened his health). It was, they said, inefficient administration...
...bond of a mother tongue. Speeches were always in order?the smooth elegancies of a Davis, the high-flown outpourings of a Harvey, the salty blasts of a Dawes. But Ambassador Mellon is no public speaker. His words are bashful, stilted; his delivery, an awkward, almost inaudible mumble. Pilgrim dinners in London will probably not be so brilliant as they once were...
...Journey to Emmaus is carved on the front face of the capital to the left of the Madonna and Child statue. Christ is here seen holding the Resurrection Cross as he meets the two disciples who carry pilgrim's staffs. The Resurrection Cross has been badly damaged. Above on either side hover angels of extraordinary beauty. The one to the left rises from a foliage design on the left face, and the one on the right from the walls of a village, perhaps Emmaus, depicted on the right face of the capital. Three windows are in the wall of Emmaus...
...Premier William Lyon Mackenzie King of Canada have worked at Hull House) are not accustomed to thinking of her as internationally-minded. But she has long been an enthusiast for the World Court and League of Nations. She refused to take any part in War work, was a pilgrim on Henry Ford's "Peace Ship." When she won the Pictorial Review's $5,000 award this year, her interest in world peace was mentioned, as well as Hull House. She had been nominated for the Nobel Prize year after year by various women's organizations. But last...
...studio into a temporary gallery and held exhibitions for her proteges. In 1914 the group that used to gather there formed the Whitney Studio Club: John Sloan, Robert Winthrop Chanler, Robert Henri, George Luks, Jo Davidson, Paul Manship and a dozen others since generally recognized as the pilgrim fathers of modern...