Word: thrice
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...25¢ admission, visitors saw a complete chronological history of the U. S., reproduced" with marble, paintings, trinkets, dresses, guns, Sheraton tables, Chippendale chairs, bedrooms (in Paul Revere's bedroom are two cradles. Married thrice, Rider Revere was the father of 16), chandeliers, Indian beadwork, violins, and a group of wax figurines, modeled and garbed to represent late ladies whose husbands had a hand in molding Chicago's history...
...just in time to avoid fainting on the platform of a Republican rally at Madison, Ind. last week. When he had revived, Senator Watson informed his audience that fainting on the rostrum in hot weather was no new experience to him. He had done it once before at Linton. thrice in Washington, because he always works himself to the highest pitch when speaking...
...Receive the Holy Ghost." The Cardinal imposed his hands, anointed the Bishop-elect's head and hands, thrice prayed "Whatsoever thou shalt bless, may it be blessed . . ." and Monsignor Francis Joseph Spellman was a bishop. He took his crosier (pastoral staff), episcopal ring, book of Gospels, mitre and gloves, and proceeded through St. Peter's, blessing the congregation as he went. Returning to the altar. Bishop Spellman genuflected thrice, wished his consecrator well with a thrice- intoned "Ad multos annos" (for many years...
Died. Mostofi el Mamalek, thrice Premier of Persia; in Teheran, Persia. He was the only Persian given the title of Agha (Dignity or Lord) by the Shahs...
...would quit trying to make him a hero. He wished they would not refer to his arrival that day by flying boat from Germany as a "transatlantic flight." He wished they would not ask him lor the101st time if the route via Iceland and Greenland, which he had surveyed thrice in three years, were "feasible." Above all he wished they would leave so he might go to bed. As if to persuade them that he really was not worth so much fuss, he said...