Word: style
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...most Reverend Father in God, Cosmo Gordon Lang, Archbishop of Canterbury and Primate of all England; the Right Hon. Douglas McGarel, Baron Hailsham, Lord High Chancellor, and the Right Hon. Stanley Baldwin, Prime Minister for the purposes therein mentioned and to declare that they should be designated under the style and title of Counselors of State...
...placed in a case beside Milton's poem "On the Morning of the Nativity" offering an interesting contrast in the literature of two nations and two centuries. Several reproductions from the Book of Hours of Joan 11, Queen of Navarre, offer further opportunity to study the fourteenth century style of illustrating the margins of books. The entire collection, most of which is reproductions of the work of the monks of the medieval times is interesting as well as beautiful, for the sketches and drawings in some of the manuscripts show the old medieval attempts to insert the greatest of detail...
...very familiar, being largely a replica of its author's campaign speech. "Fiscal 1928," said Mr. Hoover, "had continued the high economic activity which has become characteristic of American industry." He cited the Mississippi flood, the cotton depression, and a temporary abeyance of motor-making (Ford's style change), as the causes of a recession of indices last fall which was recovered last spring. He said: "Unemployment was relatively unimportant . . . the rate of real wages and the standard of living of the masses of the people remained higher than anywhere else in the world...
...house, which has been designed by W. T. Aldrich, will be in very much the same style of architecture as the other buildings, with an enclosed garden behind. It is expected the building will be completed about June 1 so that it will be available for next year...
William Robert ("Will") Wood of Lafayette, Ind., is a small-town-lawyer and professional politician, old-style. Aged 67, a bit withered, inclined to testiness and taciturnity, he has served his party as chairman of the committee that is charged with keeping Congress Republican. Now he will succeed the late, snow-polled Martin Barnaby Madden of Illinois as chairman of the potent Appropriations Committee (House end of the so-called Pork Barrel...