Word: went
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...strenuous athlete, hunter and fisherman is Father Griffin, first U. S. volunteer to this diocese. He received an elementary education in the Parochial schools of Manhattan, then went to St. Anthony's Apostolic School, San Antonio, Tex., conducted by the Oblates. There he played baseball and basketball, led a football combination famed in the Southwest as "The Four Magicians." Summers he spent with the Oblate students and Priests at Fort Lavaca...
...many years ago Jim Thomas himself was tempted to take an executive, white-collar job with Britain's Great Western Railway. He had just led a successful strike. When the white-collar was proffered with a temptingly high salary Mr. Thomas went home and talked to his wife. According to an inspiring, legendary-tradition in the British Labor Party Mrs. Thomas said: "Jim, if you ever desert the union I will never speak to you again...
Serenely sensational, the Ceske Slovo went on to warn colleagues of Dr. Edouard Benes in the Czechoslovak Cabinet that they must not expect to learn, even from him, all the details of the secret treaty...
Albert and Elizabeth, King & Queen of the Belgians, carrying cold lunch in a knapsack, went with other tourists by cogwheel railway from Grindelwald to Jung-frau-joch (11,340 ft.) in the Swiss Alps, explored glaciers, descended unrecognized...
...salary. Consulting Alfredo Gonzalez-Prada. Charge d'Affaires and First Counselor of the Peruvian Embassy, he learned that in the U. S. no servants are "indentured," that all can do as they please. He also learned that Senor Gonzalez-Prada wanted a servant. Thereupon Cornelius left the Poindexter household, went to the Prada household. Vexed, used to her own way, Mrs. Poindexter had her husband complain to President Augusto B. Leguia of Peru. Eager to please, President Leguia ordered Senor Gonzalez-Prada to return Cornelius to the Poindexters. Senor Gonzalez-Prada thereupon, last week, cabled his resignation, saying: "The orders...