Word: actions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Fellows '30 opened the real action when he mixed up with R. W. Hale Jr. '30 in a fast and deadly-earnest bout. At the sound of the bell, Fellows charged viciously into Hale with rapid blows, then, as he came into closer range, pummeled his opponent with jabs. In the second round Hale seemed to be gaining control of the tide of battle; Fellows had resorted to his shifting, defensive tactics and let himself be chased around the canvas, with Hale pursuing him and dealing out punishment. In the final period, however, the contest turned into a mauling, with...
...settled a secret fund of $250,000. About Freeport the two were known as Mr. and Mrs. Harry Brown. Six months of each year Mr. Curtis traveled alone in Europe. Some of the money which he gave her she spent upon a Negro man whose wife threatened court action unless much more money was forthcoming. The triangle crashed and last year Letitia Ernestine Brown sued Mr. Curtis for separation and $250 per week alimony, claiming she was his common-law wife. A Manhattan judge decided their relationship was purely meretricious and illicit, dismissed the suit. Mr. Curtis, declaring his "life...
Rector Abbott's manner is dynamic. Like his brother, Headmaster Mather Almon Abbott of Lawrenceville, he inclines towards brusque action. Where Dr. Hutton had been mild and diffident, Rector Abbott seemed vigorously urgent, especially when his church needed money...
...Marcus action may not seem important from the standpoint of establishing a precedent. Last year's illustration award went to the Cadillac Co., which gave recognition to Artist Thomas L. Cleland...
...stockholders' meeting last week (reminiscent of the late Rockefeller-Stewart and Childs-Barber controversies) the Page & Shaw interests rounded up an apparent majority of the company's stock. But President Loft challenged so many of the Page & Shaw proxies that the meeting was adjourned with no decisive action...