Word: deweys
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...learning the ways of Melba, Calvé, Lilli Lehmann, Jean de Reszké, learning to her greater advantage what pleased the purse-poor folk around her who scarcely missed a performance. She studied a year in Washington, was taken one afternoon to call on Mrs. McKinley. News came: DEWEY VICTORIOUS AT MANILA?and Farrar, still the Student, sat down at the piano, played and sang the "Star Spangled Banner...
...President appointed Henry Herrick Bond of Boston to be Assistant Secretary of the Treasury,? succeeding Charles Schweldt Dewey of Ohio, who resigned to become financial adviser to Poland...
...nave 500 feet long, 95 feet high. Under the apse, which is already finished at the foundation's east end, are three crypt chapels. In one of these, Bethlehem Chapel, Bishops of Washington have conducted cathedral services since 1912. Here are entombed the bodies of Woodrow Wilson, George Dewey, Henry Yates Satterlee (first bishop of Washington) Henry Vaughan (cathedral architect), and others. Episcopalians want Washington Cathedral to be the Westminster Abbey of the United States...
...harbor opposite seven Spanish boats bravely named after kings and queens and merry islands; Reina Cristina, Don Antonio de Ulloa, Don Juan de Austria, Isla de Cuba, Isla de Luzon, Cano, Marques del Duero. On the bridge of the Olympia stood two men; one of them was Commodore Dewey, commander of the American fleet, the other was his flag officer. The harbor was very quiet for a few minutes; it was only a little after five o'clock but you could hear dishes rattling in the galley of the Marques del Duero and the sudden high voice...
...Washington admitted that there had been graft in the supply department, that the beef and biscuits had given 70% of the army fever or scurvy, and that the water supply had been mismanaged. But when George Dewey, now Admiral, steamed into the cold, sunny harbor of New York, he was greeted with more noise than all the Spanish warships made together, and people were so glad to see him that they bought him a house in Washington, which he almost immediately gave to his wife...