Word: splendid
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...anniversary of that historic "tenth day of the tenth month" (1911) when Chinese patriots exploded a bomb at Hankow which was the signal for uprising that toppled down the Dragon Throne. Last week "Double Ten" was joyously celebrated at the bomb town of Hankow with a splendid procession of water floats on the mighty River Yangtze. Lantern-light processions and patriotic fetes were held in all the major cities of China, last week ? especially at Shanghai, where citizens were doubly jubilant because Chinese census takers had just announced that Shanghai is now the sixth largest metropolis in the world...
...source or spending of the millions of dollars given her. Luxuriously she spent and lived. The First Church of Christ Scientist which she founded in Manhattan a generation ago, when Mrs. Mary Baker Glover Patterson Eddy was still her friend, cost $1,250,000. Next door is her splendid mansion. It cost scores of thousands. Each year since 1920 she spent more than $250,000. In five years she spent $750,000 advertising herself and sermons in newspapers. Her radio station VVHAP, damned for its vicious criticisms of Jews and Catholics, cost her $500,000 to run. It still exists...
This was remarkable because Sally Lanier and her sister were playing the forward positions. They are both splendid horsewomen; Sally, despite the fact that it was only a few years ago that she left Rosemary Hall, is experienced in polo while her sister, more nearly a novice, was the more eager to display her speed & brilliance. Charles B. Lanier, their father, the son of Poet Sidney Lanier, is the Secretary and Treasurer of the Review of Reviews; the Laniers live in Greenwich, Conn. The Lanier girls began to ride horses as soon as they could walk; pictures of them jumping...
...splendid and enormous University of Chicago employs Coach Alonzo Stagg to improve its football team. Coach Stagg, by putting in his best men, managed to keep the University of South Carolina down to one touchdown; since his own men did not score, they lost the game, 6-0. Then they lost a second game to Ripon College (Ripon...
Gladys L. Catchings is supervisor of the obstetrical department of the Freedman's Hospital in Washington.* Last summer she wished to take a post graduate course in obstetrics at Sloane Maternity Hospital. Sloane Maternity, with Presbyterian Hospital and other institutions, makes up Manhattan's splendid new Medical Centre. Negroes have contributed their mites (about $60,000) to that Medical Centre. Presbyterian Hospital, a component, was founded in 1868 to provide medical treatment for all persons without regard to creed, race or any other distinctions. Although Presbyterian Hospital now has no colored people among its board, staff, interns...