Word: robin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dear bishop, is that of force and the letter; the league's policy is that of fellowship in the bonds of love." Thirteen Episcopal members of the league (two of them clergymen of Bishop Manning's diocese and subject to his ecclesiastical authority) signed a round-robin letter, protesting against the bishop's "usurpation of authority under the guise of interpreting the canon law," attacking his indulgence of high-church canon-law-breakers...
From the Sorbonne, Paris, France Monsieur Leon Robin, Professor of Ancien Philosophie, comes to Harvard to lecture during the first half year on Plato's Symposium and the philosophy of Plato. Wolfgang Liepe will come from the University of Kiel to lecture on the life and work of Hebbel and to give a graduate course in the poetry of the 18th century in Germany...
...Cincinnati's Zoological Gardens, Contralto Bernice Mershon opened her mouth to emit Alan-a-Dale's part in an outdoor performance of Robin Hood. Past her gleaming teeth, into the warm, dark cavity of her throat, flew a bug. Contralto Mershon shuddered, swallowed, sang on. When she could get offstage she chewed a mint, gulped some medicine, gasped: ". . . the biggest sacrifice I ever made...
While the St. Louis Robin soared 420 hours and the Bremen plowed a trans-Atlantic furrow in record time, a ponderous, unspectacular freight engine-No. 4113 of the St. Louis & San Francisco ("Frisco") R. R.-chuffed back and forth between Birmingham, Ala., and Kansas City, Mo., establishing a railroad record: for continuous non-refiring operation of a locomotive. On the afternoon of July 19, No. 4113 was fired, coupled to a 55-freight-car train, driven out of the Kansas City yards to break the record of 3,500 miles set by the Great Northern...
...shot the arrow that killed the cock-robin strike of Actors' Equity in Hollywood? "I" admits Actress Ethel Barrymore. "Ethel Barrymore!" cries President Frank Gillmore of Equity. The evening after President Gillmore's meeting at which Equity members in Hollywood adopted a resolution requiring cinema producers to employ casts at least 80% Equity (TIME, Aug. 19), Miss Barrymore denounced Mr. Gillmore's tactics as "futile" and left town. Tickled, the producers sat tight. Vexed, President Gillmore called off the strike, left for New York, flayed Actress Barrymore more for speaking out of turn "during the heat...