Word: sixteener
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sixteen years ago, when William Bramwell Booth succeeded his father, the late General William Booth, as commander-in-chief of the Salvation Army, the younger Booth was presumed to have chosen his own successor in traditional Salvation Army fashion. The present incumbent, according to tradition, names his favorite brother or sister "in arms," writing his choice on a slip of paper, which he files with his solicitors, which is not opened until Death necessitates a substitution. But William Bramwell Booth's aides-de-camp would have done with the Booth dynasty. Although William Bramwell Booth has two sons, Generals...
There are 306 recipes in the book. Sixteen of these are temperance drinks, such as: "DRINK FOR THE DOG DAYS. A bottle of soda water poured into a large goblet, in which a lemon ice has been placed, forms a deliciously cool and refreshing drink; but should be taken with some care, and positively avoided whilst you are very...
...quartet, with four of last year's Freshmen in the regular lineup showed exceptionally good form in downing the Danvers riders. The sixteen goals were made possible by team work which was remarkably brilliant at times...
...Theresa was just sixteen years old, that spring. . . ." Theresa was soon seduced ; then she left the country and went to be a governess in Vienna. Before long she had a bastard by a rascal called Kasimir Tobisch; when the child was born she wished to kill him in her agony and sorrow. Instead, she sent him to live with some country people and went on being a governess. Lovers came to her again and she accepted them: Albert, who had loved her long ago; Richard, who thought that she was "too good for him," slept with her friend and committed...
...Sixteen years ago, when he was three, Harry Braun arrived from Russia. A melancholy urchin, he lounged in Manhattan ghettoes, not playing with the tougher ragamuffins but crooning to himself. By the time that he was eleven, it was plain to Mrs. Braun that he would be the world's greatest musician. She bought him a $10 fiddle and said, "Play...