Word: righte
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...national flag consists of three broad horizontal stripes of orange, white & blue. In the white stripe, from left to right, are a small Union Jack, an Orange Free State flag, and a Transvaal Vierkleur flag, the latter two being republican emblems. The three flags occupy one-third of the white stripe or one-ninth of the whole flag and embody five colors: red, white, blue, orange, green...
Fortunately, the president escaped serious injury. The bullet passed through his hat and grazed his right temple, splintering the bone. He was immediately driven to the hospital, where he was able to walk to the operating room. His face suffered minor cuts from the splintered glass. His condition was said to be satisfactory, but the Athenians worried over him fearing that the shock would be more than his age could stand...
...long-nailed Princess lusting for blood. Beautiful, cold as a northern light, she drew suitors from near & far, asked them her three deadly riddles, smacked her lips when they failed and ordered their execution. Came the Unknown Prince (Tenor Giacomo Lauri-Volpi) who, prompted by love, guessed loudly & right, won her iciest fury in return. The duel went on: Let her discover his identity before daybreak if she would be released from the contract of her own making: Ruthlessly, murderously, she probed her investigation, but midnight and the warm beauty of the Palace Garden took the Unknown One's part...
...Right Reverend John Gardner Murray, presiding bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church, walked toward the tomb of the late Bishop William Croswell Doane of Albany, N. Y. The feet of a score of other protestant Episcopal bishops pointed toward the same spot; so, too, the feet of visiting Church of England, Greek and Armenian bishops. Bishop Doane's body lies under the high altar of All Saints' Cathedral at Albany, in whose chancel the bishops last week attended a high mass...
...Albany, the Reverend Charles Jarvis Harriman, Rector of the Church of St. James the Less at Philadelphia, undertook to explain. Said he: "We believe in these things not because they are Roman, but because they are right. They are more than Roman-they are catholic, and the Episcopal Church is catholic. Not Roman, but catholic...