Word: sealing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...peasants to fight for England in the War of the Revolution. Piderit, the prince's secretary, is a wise, gloomy and sardonic patriot who does not wish to see these helpless mercenaries, among them his two brothers, driven away to fight a foreign war. He borrows a seal from the prince's pretty mistress and sends a plea to King Frederick of Prussia. This just and apparently omnipotent ruler puts an end to the avaricious plot of His Serene Highness, the Prince, causing this character to have a spasm of rage. Piderit and his brothers fare, for peaceful...
Pierre Fronval looped 1,111 consecutive, uninterrupted loops, in 4 hrs. 56 min. at Velizy airdrome outside Paris. Each loop was followed by an official hammer blow delivered by an Aero Club representative upon a wooden table. A French notary legalized the record by stamping the Republic's seal upon the table. When the U. S. record of 1,093 loops in six hours was passed the crowd cheered as Frenchmen cheer champions. A Hispano-Suiza motor, the make used by Costes and Lebrix, and a Morane plane endured the strain...
...daily journalism, and with the making of money their sole aim, the owners and editors are forsaking any pretence of responsibility toward the reading public. Syndication of features and even of editorials on questions of national importance is tending to stamp the daily press of the country with the seal of a few powerful corporations or individuals, with a natural paralysis of broad and constructive thought...
...battery of Texas Ma and Pa. Henry S. Johnson was governor of Oklahoma in name alone from the day when he appointed Mrs. O. O. Hammonds to the secretaryship, and she began the conversion of the governor to the cult of Rosicrucianism. Lacking the Fergusonian sanctitiy of the holy seal of matrimony, this union of authority became fair game for the state legislature...
...handling letters the Seal-ometer sealed, stamped and counted envelopes; Addressograph stencilled name & address on them; Bircher's Lightning letter opener slit them open...