Word: raleigh
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...space on the fortified wall between two turrets, Sir Walter Raleigh walked. He had a small white beard and a bedraggled ruff about his neck, of the kind that had been in fashion a dozen years before. He walked back and forth in the narrow space, stopping from time to time to look at the water and at the ships there. He had sailed those boats to Virginia, and brought back wealth and power for himself and his queen. Then he turned away and walked back and forth again, making the four-step turn that British sailors have used since...
...bell struck, his hour of freedom was over, and he returned to his tower cell to continue his vast "History of the World" on which he never got further than the Roman conquest of Greece. But the History was not all that came from Raleigh's pen, and so today the Vagabond will go to Sever 11 at 11 o'clock to hear Professor Munn talk on Raleigh's prose works...
...George Simmons Harris (Exposition Cotton Mills); Chicago's Sewell Lee Avery (Montgomery Ward); St. Louis' James W. Harris (Harris-Polk Hats); Minneapolis' George Draper Dayton (department store); Kansas City's Joseph Franklin Porter (Kansas City Power & Light); Wichita Falls' Frank Kell (Kell Mill & Elevator Co.); San Francisco's Kenneth Raleigh Kingsbury (Standard Oil of California...
...club, of which President Hoover is a member, a taxicab driver saw the robbers hastily enter another cab, grew suspicious, summoned policemen, gave chase. Captured, the bold youths said their names were Robert A. Cornell and George Evdochminor. Four days before they had arrived in town from Raleigh, N. C. They were Democrats...
...John Raleigh Mott, president of the World's Alliance of Y. M. C. A. and executive committee member of the Allied Forces for Prohibition, long a friend and beneficiary of the Rockefeller family, was in Scotland when he heard the news. Promptly he. too, plumped for Prohibition reform. While opposed to outright repeal, he favored a non-political national referendum. Another prominent Prohibitionist, Stanley High, who quit managing editing the Christian Herald to found a Dry daily in Manhattan (not yet founded) believed that it was time "for the Drys to re-examine their case." Month before...