Word: scott
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Oxford, Ohio met the 76th general assembly of the United Presbyterian Church, with which the Presbyterian Church in the U. S. A. last month expressed willingness to merge (TIME, June 11). A candidate for moderator was Dr. Francis Scott McBride, national superintendent of the Anti-Saloon League. The United Presbyterians, however, gave a clear majority to Rev. Dr. John Alvin Orr, 59, suave, well-dressed pastor of Pittsburgh's wealthy First Church and president of that city's Citizens' League. Two days later the assembly voted 123-to-113 against submitting to the 67 presbyteries...
...18th Century French collection brought $243,142. The highest price for anything was paid at the Ryan auction by canny Lord Duveen of Millbank who bid $102,500 for a marble bust of a Princess of Aragon by Francesco Laurana, 15th Century Florentine. Highest literary item was Francis Scott Key's manuscript of "The Star Spangled Banner," sold for $24,000 to Dr. Abraham Simon Wolf Rosenbach as agent for Baltimore's Walters Art Gallery. Anders Zorn's The Toast, of which exist only 75 impressions, was the most expensive etching...
...Britain was as shocked as the constable. Did Sussex nurture another Dillinger? Was Worthing to be the Chicago of the Downs? The County armed. Huge Webley & Scott revolvers were issued to the local police, a fact that produced eight column headlines in the London Press. Brass-helmeted firemen were mobilized. Hundreds of volunteers scoured the hedgerows and lanes in cars and on chugging motor bikes. Unasked, Sir Oswald Mosley's Black Shirts joined the man hunt...
...starter in groups of three. Around the 2½-mile brick oval with an unsteady, insistent roar, sidling awkwardly at the turns, straightening out for speed on the straightaways, whirled the bright-hued machines hardly bigger than toy-store cars. After 30 miles George Bailey of Detroit ran his Scott Special into the outer retaining wall, bounced over to the ground. A broken wrist was his only injury. That was the worst wreck of the race.* Fifty miles farther on two more cars skidded with only minor hurts and the rest of the field was warned to slow down while...
...passion for her elderly-married rector, finally did neither of them any good by writing to the Bishop about his imaginary advances. The father, weighed down by carking business cares and a German grandmother, hanged himself. Ethel's sons were left to carry on. Readers will admire Author Scott's ingenuity in projecting her photographs into life-sized semblances, but they will not agree that she has made these foreigners completely lifelike. Like H. M. Bateman's immortal "Boy who Breathed on the Glass at the British Museum," Author Scott has breathed indomitably but mostly in vain...