Word: toronto
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...when the 20th Century was young, the story of the mighty house of Peel came to the ears of Beatrice Gladys Lillie, born in Toronto, Canada, of an English mother and an Irish father. Perhaps that was why her heart beat high in 1919 when she, a musical comedy girl, met a tall, blonde gentleman by the name of Robert Peel-the great-grandson of the great Sir Robert. In 1920 she married him, became mistress of haloed Drayton Hall. Her fame spread through two continents as the frolicsome dancer of Chariot's Revue. But her husband, neither statesman...
...Japanese press devoted less space to events in China last week than to the minutes of the Imperial Diet. The British press of London and Toronto was calm and factual. But the newspapers of the U. S. grossly sensationalized the news. To catch the pennies that buy papers, cartoonists for the Chicago Tribune and many another great daily splashed out Chinamen in pigtails* being egged on to clash with U. S. marines by horrifically bearded Bolsheviki. Still more blatant were U. S. headlines. One example...
...Reverend Richard Roberts, D.D., Minister of the Sherbourne United Church. Toronto, Ontario, will conduct the services in Appleton Chapel at 11 o'clock tomorrow morning...
Last week in the prisoner's box of a crowded Toronto courtroom, Ernest V. Sterry squinted through thick glasses at a jury of his peers, stood trial for blasphemy against the Lord God of Christians. In the Christian Enquirer he had written of the God of the Bible as "this irate old party . . . this touchy Jehovah . . . who preferred the savory smell of roast cutlets to the odors of boiled cabbage,* who sat in a burning bush or popped out from behind the rocks" (TIME, Jan. 24). Edward J. Murphy, devout Roman Catholic, prosecuted for the Crown with vigor, called...
...feminist problem was dropped when Rev. T. T. Shields of Toronto, Canada, President of the Bible Union, launched into an attack on John D. Rockefeller Jr. He charged Mr. Rockefeller and his pastor, Rev. Harry Emerson Fosdick of the Park Avenue Baptist Church, with trying to transform the Northern Baptist Convention into "the Religious Department of the Standard Oil Co." All of which was promptly denied by Mr. Rockefeller through...