Word: dropping
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Said Dr. Lynch: "The Episcopalian Church is much more closely identified with Catholicism than with Protestantism, and every attempt to practice Church Unity with Protestants proves it. I cannot help feeling that the Anglo-Catholic party which wishes to drop the word 'Protestant' has not only all of the logic on its side, but all of the evidence, both historical and contemporary. Furthermore, every time the Episcopalian Church refuses to recognize the orders of a Protestant minister as equally valid with that of an Episcopalian priest, or refuses to permit a Protestant minister to officiate at its altars...
...Hawk (Fox). In the grey belly of a Zeppelin over London, bombers work quietly. Through the night drop the bombs, making fountains and spraying plants of fire in the narrow streets, shaking the theatre where a chorus dances and the bar rooms and restaurants where people are eating and drinking. A flower-woman runs out to the corner to see the danger better and a nobleman goes up to his roof for the same purpose. The raid in the fog, brilliantly photographed, is the justification of an unconvincing anecdote about a British aviator (John Garrick) and a waitress (Helen Chandler...
Last week, upon announcement of the dividend omission the stock tumbled from a resting place at 33 to a new low of 27 while the preference stocks concluded a drop that carried them from...
Next, General Ho removed his headquarters from the city he was supposed to be defending to a strongly built cement factory on the opposite side of the river. Finally he sent an airplane to drop leaflets over the principal enemy force, encamped only 25 miles upstream, the famed "Ironsides Army" of General Chang Fa-K'uei (TIME, Oct. 14). The leaflets shamelessly offered following itemized bribes...
...soldier of fortune who earns his living fighting wars for popinjay princes and who takes a dislike to his current employer because of a remark the latter has passed about his (Crack's) mother. Best shot: Crack, at the battle front, making sissified King Leopold (Lowell Sherman) drop a handkerchief as a signal for shooting an officer...