Word: angeling
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...President Roosevelt made him Secretary of State. Then after a bitter skirmish with William Randolph Hearst,† Mr. Root entered his international era. From Venezuela to the Newfoundland fisheries, from the Pan-American Conference to the Hague Court, this shrewd lawyer became the angel of arbitration. He was made head of the Carnegie Endowment, an organization with an income of $10,000,000 to spend for international peace. In 1912 he won the Nobel Peace Prize...
...Woman Disputed.-Hun officer (Lowell Sherman) and Alsatian Angel (Ann Harding...
...Devil, or Sin, or ourselves, but to social reform, to fighting tuberculosis or hookworm, or vice. The idea is presumably that if we try to patch up the botch Jehovah has made of keeping mankind in running order, Jehovah will repay our time and expense by deputing an angel to put us at the top of St. Peter's waiting list. We admire King Arthur, who gave Anglia a good administration and checked the Saxon crime wave more than Sir Galahad who went off by himself to catch a glimpse of the Holy Grail, although the latter achieved what...
...soon hopeless spinsters, Abyssinian slaves, beggars and poor cousins of Mohammed leaked it out that his vigils were to confer with the angel Gabriel, who was repeatedly confiding that of the sundry gods then worshiped in Arabia, Allah was the only god and he, Mohammed, was His rasul (prophet). The powerful Koreish clan in Mecca scowled. Mohammed's friends, now dubbed Moslems (traitors) found it best to keep his revelations secret. It was four years before their number was great enough for him to broach his mission openly in Mecca...
...Havana, one Angel Arango pleaded and pleaded with air pilots to take him aloft. He wanted to step off the wing of a plane and drop into the Gulf of Mexico from an altitude sufficient to test a combination parachute and buoyant belt he had invented. Pilots old and pilots young refused to budge. To them the device did not look practical. Last week, however, Senor Arango found his man, clambered joyfully into a cockpit, waved goodbye to watching thousands, crept out on the plane's wing tip at 3,000 feet, stepped backwards into empty air. The parachute...