Word: virginally
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sosthenes Behn is ancestrally Dutch-French. By birth, he is Danish, having been born at St. Thomas, Danish West Indies (now the Virgin Islands, U. S. territory). His first name is the Greek for "life-strength." By his own efforts, he is a naturalized American. A touch of World War heroism becomes his dark, tall, military bearing-he was a lieutenant colonel, won the D. S. M., was a member of the Legion of Honor. He started by electrifying Porto Rico's wilderness, then Cuba's, Mexico's, Chile's. These were telephone operations, at first...
...Smith. Up to the end of last week, 74 delegates had been chosen for the Democratic convention, including Idaho's eight, Louisiana's 20, Minnesota's 24, New Hampshire's eight, Alaska's six, six from the Philippines, two from the Virgin Islands. Each and everyone was to vote for Candidate Smith. In Manhattan it became known that Candidate Smith would formalize his candidacy the week following Easter. Mayor Frank Hague of Jersey City is the Smith campaign manager. He will run for Congress, hoping to be White House spokesman in the House of Representatives...
Reconciled. Dorothy Cumming, whose contract as the "Blessed Virgin" in the cinema play The King of Kings forbids her from the "appearance of evil" for at least seven years; with the father of her two children, Frank Elliott, from whom she was divorced last December...
...Rural constituencies of ignorant Roman Catholics were treated to a cinema in which the Virgin Mary was shown celestially aiding the Marshal and by implication favoring his party...
...Presbyterians, the Virgin birth is a bone of contention which fundamentalists will not permit liberals to bury. Recently Rev. Dr. Albert Parker Fitch, famed modernist, was installed in the pulpit of the Park Avenue Presbyterian Church. Last week, Rev. Dr. Walter Duncan Buchanan, fundamentalist, filed with the Presbyterian General Assembly a complaint about Dr. Fitch. At the annual meeting of the assembly, this year to be held at Tulsa, Okla., late in May, Presbyterian squabbles are given a good thorough airing. This may be one of the squabbles which will enliven this year's session: New York Presbytery against...