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...rsalist congregation founded in 1833 and housed in a magnificent building which was designed by Minard Lafever and completed in 1844. It is a tale of scandals and sorrows, of the rough Brooklyn waterfront intertwined with the elevated airs of affluent Brooklyn Heights, and sharp theological differences that, at one time, rendered the church into four congregations. Thi...

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...ing speech, trying to get the sounds right. By day she would play with her toys and listen to the adults and the things they’d said to each other, scandals and inner-palace politics, who was hated, who was admired, suppositions when she might get a normal sibling, why Duke Chyril Jadis insisted on keeping her, what things would be like when Wyrren grew older. They weren...

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...first of the Barsetshire series and was also Trollope’s first really successful novel. In the mid nineteenth century there were a number of financial scandals in the Church of England including those of Rochester, where the endowments which should have supported the King’s School Canterbury had been diverted to the Dean and Chapter; and of the hospital of St Cross at Winch...

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...usted by wars hot and cold and corrupted by vacuous materialism. Recent accounting scandals, crumbling markets, political scams, human rights viola...

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...uch opinions when they reflect that these men, these boasted men were such scandals to their Country and their sex as to allow and assist their Queen ...

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...er with government funds; and their rule has been enlivened by a number of scandals, into which I feel with relief that it is unnecessary I should ent...

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...t, between her toes, in order to sup- port her austerities. But these were scandals, invented to tar- nish this great sanctity of which all the other ...

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...N. or this:— WILL AMERICA FIGHT? ANTI-GERMAN RIOT IN BAGDAD. THE MUNICIPAL SCANDALS AT DAMASCUS. MR. BUTTERIDGE’S INVENTION FOR AMERICA. Bert stared a...

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...was alone with her niece she let the dust gather for a moment on the ancient scandals of the Arnide. She so remained below therefore, while Pansy guid...

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...oachable, or that France has not had more than her share of glaring financial scandals, but that among the real French, uncontaminated by cosmopolitan ...

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...onsieur le Marechal the Minister of War, to prevent the recurrence of such scandals for the future, has ar- ranged for a regular Commissariat office i... ... on the Bourse, the different occupations of the lions themselves, and the scandals of the town, showed a tendency to break up into intimate tete-a- t...

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...chance eliminated play; the individual freedom of guns turned battles into scandals of crouching concealment; there was too much cover afforded by the...

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...-Boat R Bat-Boat R Bat-Boat R Bat-Boat Racing acing acing acing acing T HE SCANDALS of the past few years have at last moved the yachting world to con...

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...uite enough hindrance to the heretic without being complicated by personal scandals. Thus the theoretic libertine is usually a person of blameless fam...

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..., based wholly on the prevalence of ill- ness. It is true, there are grave scandals in the public medical ser- vice. The public doctor may be also a p... ...y administration and vigilant prevention of infec- tion. Such absurd panic scandals as that of the last London epidemic, where a fee of half-a-crown p...

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... Maidan to hers. She desired then to cause the horrors and pains of public scandals. For, watching Edward more intently and with more straining of ear... ...tchfulness. She persuaded herself that this was because she had a dread of scandals. Edward might get himself mixed up with a marriageable daughter of... ...—and she realized that she had not, before, been afraid of husbands and of scandals, since, then, she did her best to keep Maisie’s husband unsuspicio...

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...he had often been locked up after all sorts of ludi- crous and disgraceful scandals, but he was a favorite both of his comrades and his superior offic... ...get him locked up. The colonel of the regiment had announced that if these scandals did not cease he would have to leave. As for the baroness, he was ...

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... again, if I could prevent it. I have already alluded to certain reports, or scandals, which I knew of, relating to the early life of Arthur’s father....

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...le’s will, as some historians sup- pose, then all the details of the court scandals contained in the biographies of a Napoleon or a Catherine serve to...

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...e conversation had been more amusing than the drawing-room talk of society scandals, the weather, and Countess Apraksina. Now and then they glanced at...

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.... Ingram, W . F. Gill, Eugene Didier, Sarah Helen Whitman and others these scandals have been dispelled and Poe is seen as he actually was-not as a ma...

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...state that he never even had any intention of marrying. Where do all these scandals originate? In the same way it was rumoured that Ivan Nikiforovitch...

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... devil will be glad for my coming, for I have some very fine songs for him, and scandals and old gossips of the high aliis that will make him scratch h...

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...ed assistant-surgeon-major, compromised about 1812 in certain conscription scandals, and forced at this time to leave the service, had taken advantage...

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...r set pretty well, I suppose, your petty tradesmen’s set. You know all its scandals and hypocrisies, its jealousies and squabbles, its hundred of divo... ...t, as well as its tens that do. MRS GEORGE. We’re not angels. I know a few scandals; but most of us are too dull to be anything but good. HOTCHKISS. T...

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...eds, it was not only the novices who found the resulting complications and scandals exquisitely ingenious and amusing, nor their equally verdant flapp...

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...quests,” it may end by letting us into the secret of usurpations and other scandals gossiped about long empires ago:—this world being apparently a hug... ...public prints had not cast their present magnificent illumination over the scandals of life. Still, vanity, with a woman’s whole mind and day to work ... ...ain call upon you to enter into satisfactory explanations con- cerning the scandals against you, or else to withdraw from posts in which we at any rat...

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...quests,” it may end by letting us into the secret of usurpations and other scandals gossiped about long empires ago:— this world being apparently a hu... ...ublic prints had not cast their present magnificent illumi nation over the scandals of life. Still, vanity, with a woman’s whole mind and day to work ... ...again call upon you to enter into satisfactory explanations concerning the scandals against you, or else to withdraw from posts in which we at any rat...

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...in- tense individual experiences. The engagements, the love af- fairs, the scandals of conspicuous people are given in pitiless detail in articles ado...

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... good will He reward with good things. To those who avoid great crimes and scandals but commit only lighter faults, verily, thy Lord will be diffuse o...

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...e conversation had been more amusing than the drawing-room talk of society scandals, the weather, and Countess Apraksina. Now and then they glanced at... ...ople’s will, as some historians suppose, then all the details of the court scandals contained in the biographies of a Napoleon or a Catherine serve to...

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...4 9:12 AM Page 74 sional and news media investigations of the Watergate scandals of the Nixon administration expanded into general investigations o... ... laws has been replaced by “a focus on personal investiga- tions, possible scandals, and issues designed to generate media attention.”The unglamorous ... ...erated by drug trafficking and high-level international fraud. Large-scale scandals, such as the use of the Bank of New Y ork by Russian money launder...