Word: whirlpools
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...McGovern safely reached London after being missing for months at the headwaters of the Amazon. One of his comrades was drowned in a river whirlpool; he himself nigh died of a jungle rheum. Hostile tribes, insects, vampire bats and reptiles beset his wanderings but he survived with tales to tell of unsuspected gold, silver, coal and oil deposits; and of being initiated, at rites which no woman may attend, into a freemasonry of bronze-skinned jungle nomads. Dr. McGovern, who though still in his twenties has scoured the globe's face from London to holy Lasa, was in time...
...Catholic claim on two facts; its acceptance of the Creeds, and its Apostolic Succession. It would scarcely be reverent to pull down this structure by changing the Creeds, as the structure was founded by Christ. Neither would it be wise, for the Church would then fall into the seething whirlpool of two hundred and fifty-six protestant sects; which, as they become more modernistic, become more agnostic and farther from Christianity...
...would come down the chimney. In another speech he said: "The Government (Protectionist) want us to shoot Niagara. We've asked for time to consider it, but they say: 'No, jump in; you will have plenty of time to think it over between the falls and the whirlpool.'" At Criccieth in Wales, Mr. George became bitter when he referred to Conservative posters depicting him as a "vain talker": "There is no party from which that charge comes with such ill favor as from the Tory Party. Were they of that opinion from 1914 to 1918? My recollection...
...discarded her. . . . The State's Attorney and the Grand Jury of Cook County, Ill., are delving into a sink of depravity, baring the scandals of Chicago's segregated district 18 years ago, to find, as the Prosecutor believes, William Earl Dodge Stokes at the vortex of a veritable whirlpool of crimes, of allegations of brazen corruption and almost unbelievable perjury, all directed at Helen Elwood Stokes, his present wife...
...information service. In addition to newspaper publicity, the Bureau plans to reach the people through banks, Chambers of Commerce, Boards of Trade, labor organizations, and large mercantile institutions. By thus plugging thus plugging the hole in the dyke, the Bureau will divert millions of dollars yearly from the wildcat whirlpool and gradually drive the "Ponzi" specie of wizard from finance...