Word: presents
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Beneath the whole episode grew a sentiment in the Senate for a change in its rules to do away with secret executive sessions on nominations. Polls showed many more than a majority of Senators in favor of some escape from their present embarrassing position...
When Walter William Heffelfinger, son of a Minneapolis boot & shoe manufacturer, presented himself as a freshman at Yale in the fall of 1888, football coaches eyed him approvingly. His, they quickly saw, was the strapping physique to crash through any resistance to victory. Last week Walter William Heffelfinger prepared to present himself to the voters of Minneapolis as a candidate for Congress in the Fifth Minnesota District at a special election to succeed Representative Walter Hughes Newton, resigned. Time had changed the Heffelfinger physique but little. At Yale he had learned how to win. In Minneapolis he was confident...
...village of Farnham, Surrey, English monks, members of the orders before which Joan was tried, laid the cornerstone of a church to St. Joan of Arc. Present was Mgr. Eugéne Stanislas Le Senne, today's Bishop of Beauvais...
Among the black-and-white Dominicans and black Benedictines who attended the ceremony, sat Mlle. Chantel de la Flech%#232;re, who claims collateral kinship with La Pucelle. Absent was the present Earl of Warwick, 18-year-old Charles Guy Fulke Greville...
...state receptions and banquets are in order at the Vatican. Last week Pietro Cardinal Gasparri, beetle-browed secretary of the Papal State, signalized the new era with his first diplomatic luncheon. Gathered in stately Vestments Hall were 60 ambassadors and ministers in full dress, wearing swords and decorations. Present too were white-ruffled, silk-stockinged Papal chamberlains, noble guards, Officers of the Swiss Guard and Papal Grenadiers. Never before had such a great gathering been seen at a Vatican function. The menu at what pious Italians have come to call Peter's Table, was, while not frugal, surprisingly simple...