Word: proofed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...therefore ask you, in a spirit of American fair play, to invite me to your church at any time that suits your convenience during the week inclusive of and beginning Sept. 2 and I ask you to make the same statement in my presence with such proof of its truth as you may be able to advance. I further ask that you permit me to make full reply. In order that you may not be embarrassed, I will permit you, if you choose, to conduct the meeting by question and answer...
Protestants might scoff, or heretics sneer. The slant eyelids of infidels might even lower in sedate winks. But General Umberto Nobile clung to the medal as tangible proof that his pious deed of dropping a large Papal cross on the North Pole (TIME, June 4) has found highest favor in the eyes of the Most Blessed Father and Supreme Pontiff, Achille Ambrogio Damiano Ratti, Pope Pius XI. Enthusiastic, His Holiness sent along with the medal his "warmest congratulations," and finally imparted a solemn Papal blessing...
...favorite fox terrier, unhappily demised. Down by the golf course went Paul and William with the remains of Rudy. They dug a trench and raised a headstone. They inscribed: "He left us." Publisher Block likes to walk, puffing ever so slightly, from the house to the headstone. It is proof to him that his sons are absorbing friendship...
Died. Peter Rudak, 136, claimant (with documentary proof) of military service 120 years ago in the Russian Army fighting against Napoleon; in Pitchania, Union of Socialist Soviet Republics...
...suggested the possibility of better-than-bootleg champagne for $2.30. Immediate reactions of cautious clubmen were: 1) It can't be legal; and 2) It can't be good. But the advertisement gave chapter and verse of the Volstead Act in defense of is legality, and as proof of its potability offered an iron-clad guarantee: "If you are not satisfied with the champagne you make, your money will be returned to you. "If you are not satisfied, we will send a man to destroy the champagne and he will give you a check. "If you spoil...