Word: rosing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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General Dalton, second-highest-paid executive official,* will join a private shipping enterprise. Since 1926 he has directed the Government's fleet of 250 vessels. He rose from an Army private to Assistant Quarter-Master-General in charge of transportation. A year ago the Dalton brow darkened unhappily when a Fleet Corporation reorganization clipped his authority. Now the prospect of the sale of the Government's ships, with the consequent evaporation of his good job, was doubtless what tempted him to desert the Coolidge barkentine...
...John Joseph Pershing, Wellington Koo, Woodrow Wilson, Marshal Foch, Georges Clemenceau. He went to the Versailles Peace Conference to see faces. When he forgot his pass he acted as a messenger in order to enter the hall where the intricate, fascinating lineaments of statesmen were gathered in clusters. He rose in his seat to peer at Clemenceau. There were cries: "Sit down! Sit down!" Heads turned, international business ceased. Jo Davidson sat down...
Thomas Nicholson, born in Canada less than 70 years ago, rose through years of bible teaching to be titular head ? President ? of the League...
...Manhattan as the curtain rose on the last performance of the German Grand Opera Company, Walter Elschner, its stage manager, died. He had worked day and night planning and preparing the staging of the Ring operas, snatching rare naps stretched out on chairs in a box at the Opera House, until he suffered a nervous collapse, pneumonia, swift death...
Lieutenant Commissioner Haines gasped, stared hard. At Hay's suggestion all rose, asked God for guidance. The meeting was adjourned...