Word: silver
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...down at the writing table and abused the stationery reserved for authors. His pleasant and gentlemanly use of the epithet "Yanks" further bears out my theory. The distinguished habitues of the Club doubtless call him "Dilly dow" for short. I can see him now in gorgeous yellow stockings with silver buckles on his shiny shoon. JOSEPH WILSON COCHRAN Pastor The American Church of Paris Paris, France Cramp v. Cunningham...
...burning Marshal Joffre was represented by an aide, Major Desmazes who arrived briskly at the Mint last week, with several bearded senators. A blast furnace intended for melting silver was started, and into it workmen shoveled paper which had once been valued at the par equivalent of $4,000,000. The blazing heat and tedious length of this ceremony were deemed by physicians unsuitable to the health of massive Joseph Jacques Cesaire Joffre, aged...
...Horace Percy Silver, in 1912, was nominated bishop coadjutor of Kansas for his powerful pastorates at Omaha and Lincoln, Neb., and his missionary work in the southwest. But because he was divorced, only 48 of the 98 Protestant Episcopal bishops voted for him to join their body. He withdrew his candidacy...
...opportunity to reject a bishopric a third time. The House of Bishops had elected him missionary bishop of Wyoming. For three weeks he pondered. Then last week when Bishop John Gardner Murray of Maryland, Presiding Bishop, went to Manhattan from the Church Congress in San Francisco, Dr. Silver sent him a letter. It read: "The action of the bishops of the Church in selecting me for the post of bishop of the Missionary District of Wyoming has received serious and prayerful consideration. It has, I confess, brought back to me many happy and sacred memories of the nearly 20 years...
...aged 69, careworn, has been trying, as his church paper Living Church states, "to visit all parts of the country that people might see him, not as an individual, but as the executive head of the Church in whom they might realize the unity of the Church." Of Dr. Silver's contumacy he had nothing immediate...