Word: rails
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...boiled president of I. L. A. He permitted a temporary lifting of the embargo on Alaskan shipping out of Seattle because of a threatened food short age. But no truce was extended to the Grace Line, to Luckenbach, Dollar or Pan ama Pacific. Freight had to be carried by rail from San Francisco to Seattle and Portland. The Japanese-owned N. Y. K. Line, with Japanese crews, was permitted to navigate at will, but striking longshore men would not touch its cargoes. Least affected city was Los Angeles, which consequently enjoyed an unprecedented ship ping boom. Last week San Francisco...
...Another freak racing accident occurred on the second day of racing at Belmont. Samuel Riddle's All Aflame was leading in the Lark Purse, Jockey Charlie Kurtsinger up, when suddenly the colt shied at the crowd's cheers, bolted to the inside rail, crossed legs, tripped, fell. Jockey Don Meade and Queen's Flag tumbled over the fallen horse and rider. All Aflame broke his shoulder and was killed. Jockeys Kurtsinger & Meade miraculously escaped injury...
...Blood was shed for thee, and be thankful. On this passage in the Episcopal Book of Common Prayer is based a rule, observed in 95% of the Church's 8,222 parishes and missions, that at Holy Communion all who wish to partake shall go to the altar rail and take a sip of sherry from a common chalice. The cup may be wiped from time to time with a "purificator napkin. Last week The Churchman, liberal fortnightly, which has crusaded against Cinema Tsar Will Hays, "Buchmanism" and various Episcopal bishops,* was battling vigorously against the common...
...Presbyterians in their pews, and Methodists at the rail use individual glasses, cordial size, with morsels of leavened bread. Many an Anglo-Catholic Episcopalian apes the Catholic practice of communion in one form. But opponents of the common cup, who plan to take their battle to the Episcopal general convention next autumn, have no intention of departing from good Episcopal methods. They favor "intinction," as practiced in the Eastern Orthodox Church and in some U. S. parishes, where there are tuberculous communicants. By intinction, the wafer is dipped in the wine, handed by the priest to the communicant...
...first turn, Sgt. Byrne closing swiftly. Jockey Don Meade went to the outside with Colonel Edward Riley Bradley's filly Bazaar, hot after the leaders. Little old Jockey Mack Garner, in the ruck with Mrs. Isabel Dodge Sloane's big brown colt Cavalcade, swung to the rail to get out and ahead of the press. Mata Hari and Sgt. Byrne fell back, bunching the field and making it necessary for Garner to take Cavalcade all the way outside again. At the half-mile pole, Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt's Discovery pushed out in front and while his backers...