Word: sixths
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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More than a rack of test-tubes ? a retort! Seething humanity smothered the Derby. Confetti and torn telephone books snowed. A placard and its prancing bearers proclaimed: "Remember November sixth ? beer!" The swarms of children grew prodigious. Cautioningly, anxiously now the Derby waved. One child run down would cost thousands of votes, perhaps millions. Yet swarming imps were every where, all yelling and grinning, a few tying to the Derby's car tin cans which other imps snatched off, pummeling the tin-cantiers...
...Although the sixth anniversary of the March on Rome was celebrated by 1,250,000 parading Fascists, last week, not a single public oration was pronounced?by order of the Head of the State, who utterly detests and frequently denounces "holiday oratory...
With the help of an Advisory Council,* four series of concerts have been planned -for third and fourth grades, fifth and sixth, seventh and junior high schools, high schools and colleges. Teachers will cooperate in the classrooms, supervise tests sent out in advance by the Radio Corporation of America, illustrate the talks with pictures of the composers and the instruments in the orchestra. Soon, if this first radio instruction proves successful, Big Teacher Damrosch will have 12,000,000 pupils. In a decade or two the honest historian should be able to point to a nationwide appreciation of music commensurate...
...13th Street near Sixth Avenue, Manhattan, John Markle, anthracite tycoon, helped Commander Evangeline Booth, of the Salvation Army, with a bit of digging, then turned, spade in hand, to acknowledge the cheers of many a Salvation Army cadet. Ground had been broken for the $500,000 John & Mary Markle residence-hotel for businesswomen. Said Henry Waters Taft, second youngest of the four Taft brothers and chairman of the Salvation Army Advisory Board: "He gives twice who gives quickly . . . he gives thrice who gives meekly...
...sixth time the Rev. Dr. Frederick Hermann Knubel was elected president of the United Lutheran Church in America. He has held the office since he was first elected ten years ago. He is a New Yorker by birth and by residence, is 58 years...