Word: barre
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...evening, friends assembled in the living room of the Hoover home. Negro butlers, directed by Mrs. Hoover, served lemonade. There were carnations in the vases. Associate Justice Stone, of the U. S. Supreme Court, and Mrs. Stone were there; also the Vernon Kelloggs, George Barr Baker, assistant to the Attorney General, William J. ("Wild Bill") Donovan, Mrs. William E. Borah, and the Herbert Clark Hoover Jrs. Herbert Clark Hoover III and Peggy Anne Hoover were put to bed long before anything exciting happened...
Eager always to jeer at new things of which they know nothing, stupid persons and headline writers have had a merry time over "companionate marriage.* In the meantime, famed Benjamin Barr Lindsey, of Denver, onetime judge of the Juvenile Court, continues to preach, solemnly and with efficacy, his system of practical ethics, hoping eventually to obtain legislation that will make it practicable. He so preached last week in St. Louis, where an audience at the Coliseum heard him debate against jovial Lawrence McDaniel, a onetime Circuit Attorney...
Died. Allie B. Clippert, 67, mother-in-law of famed onetime (1901-27) Judge Benjamin Barr Lindsey (Juvenile Court of Denver); in Detroit...
...realm of fable and fancy will send two of its foremost citizens. George Ade, whose "Fables in Slang" delighted American and European readers of two decades ago, and George Barr McCutcheon, creator and king of the realm of Graustark, will be the two authors who claim Purdue as their Alma Mater, while J. T. McCutcheon, the cartoonist, will complete the trio of alumni which will carry the Purdue colors into the Stadium...
...burning papers were intimate confessions of some 5,000 women who had come before the little man, whose name was Benjamin Barr Lindsey, during the 27 years that he was judge of Denver's famed Juvenile Court. After Judge Lindsey was ousted (TIME, July 11), he was accused by Philip S. Van Cise, onetime Denver district attorney, of removing court records. Gathering the ashes of his conflagration and crushing them into an envelope, Judge Lindsey cried out: "I'll send them to Van Cise-that's my answer to his lying charges...