Word: stones
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...eyes were like clear-shining little blue stones, without fear, without self. He cried softly, for joy, and knelt and thanked them for coming to see him. He had seen but 16 other people in his 37 years there. He kept history in tiny scratches on a stone, beside a meticulous lunar calendar. What could he do for them?-he asked it like a child. Once he had been proud, he said, so he had come here to see God. He had not yet seen God, but now he knew he could not see him until he died...
...sake, give them what they want," followed by Warden Jennings' signature. The priest's advent was an accident, not to be considered, an irrelevant, frantic voice, begging them to think, to undo what they had done. His words fell on the deaf faces like a flurry of wind on stone...
From the snowy roadway, darkened in irregular patches by the parked automobiles of townspeople who had turned out to help, McGrath looked toward the wing of the grey stone block next to the warden's office, the wing where the rebels were barricaded. He could charge in all right, get across the yard to the main hall maybe, but no further. They would have the steel doors of the hall closed. He studied it until he thought of a plan, then took Father Cleary aside and talked to him. . . . Automobiles for their escape? The gate open...
Died. James F. Case, 61, engineer, Spanish-American War veteran, onetime (1908) Director of Philippine Public Works, head of the Paris office of Stone & Webster; in Manhattan; of pneumonia and heart disease...
...Arizona, ordained him a Protestant Episcopal priest. Wise to the necessity of enlarging his plant through the generosity of parents and alumni, Mr. O had Pomfret fitted out as became a Good Eastern School. A $135,000 Romanesque chapel, the gift of Trustee E. Walter Clark, was brought stone by stone, slate by slate from England. In keeping, Mr. O made his 140 boys wear starched white collars when they went within to worship...