Word: vastnesses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Common Prayer offered for its judgment last week by the Church of England, because the Church of England is interdependent with the British Government (see FOREIGN NEWS). The Church is "established." The King nominates its bishops; they sit as peers in the House of Lords. The Government administers the vast funds and properties of the Church. The two have been closely bound since Parliament passed the Uniformity...
Chocolate. In Europe Suchard's swiss chocolate sells in vast quantities, in the U. S. it has been practically unknown. No sluggards, the manufacturers studied the U. S. market, intending to develop sales there. At the same time H. O. Wilbur & Sons, Inc., famed Philadelphia chocolate makers, were planning to expand. Common intentions led to the formation of a new company, the Wilbur-Suchard Chocolate Co., which has exclusive rights to manufacture Suchard products...
...trouble with our education in the past has been its negative character. It has aimed at the repression of faults rather than the creation of virtues. It has summed up all the virtues in 'Thou shalt not,' instead of opening vast opportunity in the cry, 'Thou mayest?thou canst...
...White House. Here was news, perhaps. Rentfro Creager comes from Brownsville, Tex. They call Rentfro Banton Creager "the red-headed rooster of the Rio Grande." He was a customs collector under Presidents Taft and Roosevelt and a gubernatorial nominee in 1916. He has been State Republican Chairman of vast Texas since 1921 and he was asked by Presidents Harding and Coolidge to be Ambassador to Mexico. Rentfro Banton Creager is esteemed...
...Oscar Hammer- stein. It was he who precipitated the Manhattan opera war; he who con- ducted the famed Music Hall at 42d St. & Broadway; he who made varied and spectacular sorties beyond the beaten path of the new world's amusements. Last week son Arthur Hammerstein unveiled a vast memorial to him in the shape of an exceedingly Gothic theatre containing everything from an elevating orchestra pit to an organ, before a vast audience containing memorable citizens from James John Walker, Mayor, to Nazimova, actress...