Word: wilson
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Charles J. Badger, George P. Colvocoresses, Hugh Rodman, Spencer S. Wood, retired; Admirals Edward W. Eberle, Hilary P. Jones, active; Marine Corps General Dion Williams) escorted his body from Arlington to the crypt of Bethlehem Chapel, Washington Cathedral, Mount St. Albans, D. C, where lies the body of Woodrow Wilson. Bishop James E. Freeman offered prayer ; the choir sang...
...Wilson was a Presbyterian elder...
...finished- 9 steaming, sweat-gilded, bloody-eyed horses, plastered with mud from cannon-bone to belly, and 9 taut riders bent to their necks. In front was Double Chance, owned by Fred Archer and D. Goold, at 100 to 9. Neither the horse nor its rider, Major J. P. Wilson, an amateur, had ever before ridden the course...
Gamaliel Bradford, Archibald Henderson, Luigi Pirandello, Witter Bynner, Joseph Collins-with these, among lesser names, did the Virginia Quarterly Review (issued by the University of Virginia) dress out a maiden number dated April, 1925. Editor James Southall Wilson, Professor of English at the University, explained that this was only natural. Old tunes best demonstrate a new organ. For the future, the Quarterly coveted "the adventure of presenting distinguished first work wherever it can be found." It would be, in a measure, "peculiarly concerned with themes growing out of the life of the South and especially cordial to the work...
...forget the dancing of the principals, for it's as good as most of that in our show. Wilson, for instance, who is playing the stenographer, is doing 'the Charleston' as well as anyone I've ever seen...