Word: roots
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Episcopal bishops from Haiti, Minnesota, Pennsylvania and Illinois, in purple and white robes and violet birettas, a group of Army and Naval officers in uniform, and the speakers of the day-Elihu Root, Governor Smith, Sir Campbell Stuart-in high silk hats and sleek frock coats, followed a young crucifer and 100 Eton-collared choir boys in white surplices and purple cassocks up the aisle of the partly finished Cathedral of St. John the Divine, Manhattan, to range themselves along the south wall, while Bishop William Manning, gripping his golden pastoral staff, accompanied by the more notable guests, mounted...
...Elihu Root, Sir Campbell Stuart, expressed befitting sentiment. The moment for the actual dedication had come...
...Back Andover Cutler, B. C., '26 21 168 6. Back Andover Butterworth, B.,'26 21 195 6.2 Tackle Exeter Coleman, S., '27 21 178 5.10 End Exeter Gill, S., '26S 22 170 5.8 End Andover Sturhahn, H. C., '27S 23 202 6. Center Roxbury Root, R. D., '26 22 194 6.2 Guard Hotchkiss Richards, G., '27 20 196 5.11 Tackle Exeter Conway, N., '27 21 200 6.6 Tackle Hotchkiss Stone, K. D., '28 19 173 6. Back andover Wortham, R. W., '27S 20 196 6. Guard Exeter Flaherty, J. P., '28 21 185 5.10 Guard Lawrnceville Hammersley...
...Root a tackle last year, is the leading guard reserve, with Flaherty next. Harvey is the foremost center substitute...
...very good business man and that is why he is a poor politician. He gets into the papers with his economic pronouncements, but he has no small talk. Anecdote finds him very stony soil in which to take root; he has none of the blandishments nor much of that kind of acumen necessary to politicians. Many men think that he threw away the best kind of chance for the Presidency...