Word: advisee
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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"The defense." ruled Judge Wrard, "in presenting a case would be merely . . . shadowboxing. . . . There is no evidence here," said he, turning to the jury, "that a murder was committed. There is not even a corpus delicti. I therefore advise you to return a verdict of acquittal." In two minutes the...
Despite its uninterrupted string of disappointments, however, the U.S.L.T.A. continues its usual system. The American players go to Wimbledon. They blast the rest of the world aside. Then to Germany, perhaps, where the victory is less brilliant. Then weeks of vicious internecine practice in which the beat each other regularly...
Another article which takes its cue from this side of the Charles is "College and the Poor Boy Is the Door Closing?" by R. T. Sharpe, secretary of Student Employment at Harvard. Probably the best essay is "A Squire's Complaint," by Walter Pritchard Eaton, the dramatic critic. Mr. Eaton...
Gandhi's critie rejoices at Bernard Shaw's remark that the success of the Bolsheviks is due to their grasp of communism and capitalism. Perhaps the communists know it all. I would advise my opponent, however, not to take Mr. Shaw too seriously, for the same gentleman is reported to...
In the Protestant Episcopal prayer book, after the section on "Visitation of the Sick," is a little paragraph which many a minister ignores or forgets. Last week The Living Church (Anglo-Catholic) dug it up and reminded readers that: ¶ The Minister is ordered, from time to time, to advise...