Word: arthur
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Labor's Arthur Greenwood jumped up. He was cheered for 30 seconds. An act of aggression was committed 38 hours ago, he said. Why was Britain waiting? Liberal Sir Archibald Sinclair urged action. It was, said a correspondent, the 59th second of the 59th minute of the final hour...
After 15 rounds of tireless punching on both sides, Referee Arthur Donovan and the two judges agreed that Ambers had won. Quick to felicitate the new champion was Rev. Gustave Purificato, the priest under whose wing he learned to fight in a Herkimer, N. Y. church basement. But some of the other spectators were not so pleased with the decision. Some thought Armstrong was robbed of victory by the referee who took away five rounds for low blows which looked like unavoidable and harmless borderline punches. Others thought Armstrong had thrown the fight (fouling Ambers deliberately). Big, bombastic Eddie Mead...
FROM THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY'S OFFICE -Arthur Train-Scribner...
...lawyer, Arthur Train has been assistant district attorney of New York County. As a writer, he has authored 40 books from love stories (The Needle's Eye) to firsthand reporting of his police and court experiences (Courts, Criminals and the Camorra). But most people know Arthur Train as the creator of tall, gaunt, kindly, shrewd, humorous, cigar-smoking Lawyer Ephraim Tutt, who by using the tricks of the law to outsmart the tricks of the law, manages to evoke a brand of justice that, if not strictly according to Blackstone, is humane and just...
...Nicolson's was Frederick Temple Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, Marquess of Dufferin and Ava, Viscount Clandeboye and Earl of Dufferin and Earl of Ava, P.C., K.P., G.C.B., G.C.S.I., G.C.M.G., G.C.I.E., D.C.L., LL.D., F.R.S. He added Egypt and Burma to the British Empire. Harold Nicolson's father was Sir Arthur Nicolson, Baron Carnock, of Carnock, British diplomat in such outposts as Teheran (where Child Harold was born), Constantinople and Vienna. When, after 20 years of foreign service, Harold Nicolson renounced diplomacy for authoring, he wrote overtly laudatory, covertly ironical lives of his uncle and father, Lord Curzon...