Word: bottomleys
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Maidstone Jail, Kentshire, there strode last week the irrepressible Horatio Bottomley, founder of that broadly humorous weekly John Bull, which was bought more largely by British soldiers in France than any other magazine...
Five years have passed since genial Mr. Bottomley was led into a cell for converting to his own use £5,000 ($24,300) of the really enormous sums which his fervent oratory had helped to raise for War purposes. To be sure the judge who sentenced Mr. Bottomley stigmatized his "long series of heartless frauds"; but the culprit, who had conducted his own defense, rose to the occasion with a deep bow and the words: "My Lord, I only go where all accused men are sent in this land...
...prisoner he proved so docile and almost smugly obedient that his seven-year term was reduced automatically to five. Even this was cut down a few days last week by the prison authorities who had reason to think that if Horatio Bottomley was released on the date previously announced he would be met at the prison door by a huge admiring crowd of onetime soldiers, race-track folk, stage people and vague legions of "the lower classes." To prevent this scandal, the prisoner was hustled out of jail and despatched to his Sussex home in a discreet motor...
...summary: HARVARD PRIMGRTON Irving No. 1 No. 1 Bottomley Cotton, No. 2 No. 2 Borden White No. 3 No. 3 Erdman Mandell Back Back Agnew...
Score, Princeton 9, Harvard 1. Goals, Borden 5. Erdman 2. Bottomley 2 White...