Word: took
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Agent Jacques carried his story to Washington. Detroit's wet Congressman Clancy took up his charges, repeated them on the House floor. With a newspaper friend, Agent Jacques was taken to see Assistant Secretary Lowman, to report on battlefront conditions. Mr. Lowman, considerably angered, refused to see him, an nounced that he would have nothing to do with "a man of that type...
...only in geography and result did the Taitt election differ from the previous five. All other nominees were comparatively young men. Dr. Taitt is five years older than 62-year-old Bishop Garland. He has labored in the Pennsylvania vineyard all his life. Other nominees took several weeks of consideration before refusing the post. Dr. Taitt was in an adjoining room while the votes were cast. Elected on the first ballot he was immediately notified of the results. Ten minutes later his acceptance was announced to the press. It appeared to most observers that the potentates of the Pennsylvania diocese...
...London the very Rev. William Ralph ("Gloomy Dean") Inge, author of Selections from the German Mystics, Personal Idealism and Mysticism, Types of Christian Saintliness, Speculum Animae, speaking last week to the Sunlight League, took note of Continental nudism and said: "There is nothing objectionable in it, but it is a matter of convention." He recited this limerick: Half an inch, half an inch shorter. The same skirts for mother and for daughter, When the wind blows, everything shows. Both what should and what hadn't oughter...
Last week at Mitchel Field a new Brunner-Winkle biplane was the only contestant present. Its pilots took her up. Then appeared the Guggenheim Fund's pilot, the man whom Fund President Harry F. Guggenheim has fostered for two years in order to focus U. S. attention on aviation?Charles Augustus Lindbergh. With Mrs. Lindbergh he had returned in his motor cruiser Mouette from honeymooning off the New England coast to the estate of Daniel Guggenheim, Fund creator, and was ready for work. He first flew Harry F. Guggenheim for 15 minutes in the Brunner-Winkle craft. Then he took...
Stephenam Victor Joseph Noel Otto alias Otto Debeney, 29, jokester, took his own life in his native city of Brussels, last week, by leaping from the third story window of a dingy lodging house. Gallant and daring his spirit, fecund his imagination. In 1919, after deserting from the Belgian Army, he appeared in Coblenz dressed as a Belgian officer. Announcing himself as an emissary from King Albert, he decorated Major General Henry Tureman Allen, commander of U. S. forces in Germany, with the Belgian Military Medal of Honor and kissed him on both cheeks. The ceremony was performed before...