Word: prior
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...days prior they had assembled at Pittsburgh, in the streets' outside old St. Patrick's Roman Catholic Church, whose publicity-wise pastor, Rev. James R. Cox, had collected small sums for his tram's food and gasoline. Accompanied by his mother, Father Cox stepped out on the portico of his church, consulted his lieutenants. Two were priests like himself, another a lawyer. Waiting to join him en route was prizefighting, pants-pressing Mayor Edward McCloskey of Johnstown (1889 flood town). Then Father Cox signalled for his motorcade of 1,000 trucks and cars to get underway, climbed into the lead...
...their hearts' desires?at the price of shame. He even convinces the host's mistress that she is in love with him. Labored conclusion of The Devil Passes: people behave decently because something, perhaps God, makes them do so. Naturally, the superior portion of Playwright Levy's comedy occurs prior to the final section in which he has to cap his towering allegory...
...Prior to the Morrow truce this incontestable power was manifested in Mexico by demonstrations which took the form of guerrilla warfare between Mexican troops and persons who shouted as their battle cry "Long live Christ the King!" (TIME, July...
That was the first that Farmer Emerson Salisbury, 73, knew about the jail break that had taken place four hours prior and nine miles away at the Federal Penitentiary in Leavenworth ("The Bankers Institute"). Six men had escaped, dragging spectacled Warden Thomas B. White, onetime Texas Ranger, along with them as hostage. No one knew how they got their arms or passes to enter the warden's office...
Paul Spencer Clapp resigned as managing director of National Electric Light Association to become vice president of Columbia Gas & Electric. Prior to accepting his N. E. L. A. position in 1926 Mr. Clapp was special assistant to Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover...