Word: basil
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...officers elected are: George R. Ellis 1G.B., president; Hume Dow '38, vice-president in charge of speakers; George L. Weissman '39, vice-president in charge of literature; Robert R. Ross '37, assistant speakers committee; Howard Houseman 3L., secretary; Robert H. Chase '38, treasurer; and Basil Pollit '40, Freshman representative...
...airmail contracts, Elliott Roosevelt and Anthony Fokker had a scheme afoot, supposedly encouraged by the President, to form a great U. S. air transport combine, in which Elliott was to have received 5% of the stock for his efforts; that Herbert Reed went to Manhattan to discuss it with Basil O'Connor, the President's onetime law partner; that Elliott Roosevelt flew to Miami to see his father aboard the Nourmahal and thence to Washington where he told Reed at breakfast in the White House...
With Robert Levi '38 presiding as temporary chairman, a temporary executive committee was formed. The members elected to it were Hume Dow '38, William T. Dean, Jr. '37, David E. Feller '38, Robert S. Levy '38, Basil Pollitt '40, Robert R. Ross '37, Boris Yuchu '38, and Margaret Harriss, Radcliffe...
...this case the well-lubricated and almost irresistible power of the amalgamated gentlemen swings into action against a rich English Jew, accepted by society for his money. This lonely individual, sympathetically and brilliantly played by Basil Rathbone, incurs the united wrath by accusing a ne'erdo-well army captain of having stolen from him a thousand pounds. Having detected the wastrel's guilt with that incredible acumen found only in investigators who have their authors on their side, he fights a lone and losing battle for his money, even though at least one of the captain's friends, the most...
Various leverages are applied against Basil with more or less telling effects. He is induced to abandon his charges by the lure of admission into an even more exclusive club than that to which he belongs, until the shimmering promise perforce collapses. Cutting remarks are made on all sides concerning his mercenary motives and his racial vindictiveness. This bitter resolve, however, carries him through to the point where another loyalty steps in, that of a lawyer for the law, and condemns the thief. For disputable reasons the Jew then abandons the fight, but it is too late to save...