Word: bray
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Perkins defeated J. F. Whitbeck, 6-3, 6-3; Vickeray (O) defeated L. H. Gordon '27, 6-2, 8-6; Bray (O) defeated P. N> Lenhart '27, 6-4, 6-3; B. H> Whitbeck '29 defeated Wellington (O), 6-4, 10-12, 6-1; J. H. Appleton '29 defeated Carlton (O), 4-6, 6-1, 6-1; Stephen Thompson '27, defeated Drinkwater...
Madame Marthe Bray, president of the French Women's Suffrage Alliance, sat by the chauffeur, directed him to halt at localities judged fallow for stump speaking. The response of the southern French peasantry to this whirlwind "missionary tour" in behalf of women's suffrage was reported "cold...
...absolutely necessary to have outside means when you go into politics, it is not only convenient but it helps a man to think and act straight. We all rightly blame the public official who thinks simply in terms of popularity and wants, like the Vicar of Bray, to hold office at all costs. If, however, a man's livelihood and that of his children depends on holding office, it makes it very hard for him to decide to go against public opinion, no matter how wrong he may think...
...Crimson racquet men had little difficulty in dropping Baltimore and Chicago on the opening day of the tournament but lost one game to both Boston and Philadelphia on the following days. Bray of the Newton Center squad, playing for Boston, was the first to break the string of Crimson victories with a win over L.S. Haskins '26 last Sunday. In the final match Keele of Philadelphia inflicted the second loss against T.E. Jansen '26, in a tight struggle. S.P. Clark '14, who downed Captain G.D. Debevoise '26, in the semi-finals last year for the only University loss...
...kinds of cranks as well as good people go there [to Hyde Park] to say what they have to say. Cranks form, indeed, one of London's most popular free entertainment. If you do not wish to hear the bray of Communists you may walk away and listen to the more musical and equally profound bleating of the sheep in the park. If a Communist chooses to put in at the Marble Arch talking balderdash he is probably healthier than he would have been. It is intolerable that armed political bands should break the peace...