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When the solid gold top of the Shwe Dagon Pagoda at Rangoon was shaken down by an earthquake (TIME, May 19, 1930), Thomas Cook & Sons may well have mourned. But last week pious Burmese crowned their wonder of the world again with gold. The completed job cost $300,000, was rushed through one year and three weeks after the quake. For good measure and added travelers' delight, diamonds were set into 2,500-year-old Shwe Dagon's new crown...
...music. He had learned the rudiments of the organ by himself in the old Moravian Church. It was mostly on his drugstore earnings that he began formal lessons with blind David Duffield Wood of Philadelphia, at 21 went to Munich where he became absorbed in the music of pious Kapellmeister Johann Sebastian Bach...
...accusers. Although the City Affairs Committee had scrupulously avoided mention of the playboy Mayor's private life, the Mayor applied to Rabbi Wise a set of epithets first used by the late Mayor William J. Gaynor: "All-sufficient, insufficient, self-sufficient Rabbi Wise, who thinks he is pious but is only bilious; a man of vast and varied misinformation and of prodigious moral requirements." Rev. John Haynes Holmes, co-signer of the charges, was described as "for years a leader in a group of agitators and Soviet sympathizers." To the Mayor, the City Affairs Committee was "nothing more than...
...City (London's Wall Street) sighed with relief that the Snowden Budget is not more radical, dropped a pious tear for the landed Nobility & Gentry...
...easing Winston out, in welcoming Neville in, there is a distinct probability that Mr. Baldwin was nominating his successor. It is no secret that he yearns to retire, that he wrote out his resignation as Conservative Leader while watering at Aix-les-Bains last summer, that pious Mrs. Baldwin made him tear the resignation up, invoking DUTY...