Word: barre
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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During nearly 25 years, Judge Benjamin Barr Lindsey of Denver, Col., has had to fight for his office about a dozen times. By appointment or election, with or without party help (he is a Democrat in not very good standing), he has always got it. Last November, the Republicans (reputed to be led by the Ku Klux Klan), swept the state. But Lindsey held his seat by 117 votes. A recount was demanded. Last week, he appeared to be slipping. Meanwhile, appeals have gone through the Nation for financial and moral support. Some of the old enthusiasm for Mr. Judge...
...well as they can play football, there should be stiff competition at the Knights of Columbus games at the Mechanics Building on Saturday night when they meet the University's short relay team. The race will be twelve laps, which is 1560 yards. McTiernan, Hamling, and Barr area three of the invading relay men. With Kane out of town, it is probable that the University's four runners will be Robb, Allen, Lundell, and Rogers. Miller will have a chance to compete with a fellow-backfield man when he goes to the mark in the 40-yard dash with Adam...
...saving. They tried to lose by backing a musical comedy, an open-air theatre, a golf club. Always, miserably, they profited. Mr. Oppenheim-King Spider, spinner of a thousand diabolical detective tales -here chuckles with the reader in an elaborated humorous anecdote, borrrowed from George Barr McCutcheon...
...Three seats are still vacant-those of Anatole France, Maurice Barrés, Comte d'Haussonville...
Thayer Scholarships,--A. H. Barr Jr., of Chicago; III.; P. A. Leighton 1G, of Corina Calif.; A. R. Prince 1G, of Truro, N. S. J. W. Tapp of Washington...