Word: butlered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...March 4, 1929 the Supreme Court was composed of six Republicans (Taft, Holmes, Van Devanter, Sutherland, Sanford, Stone) and three Democrats (McReynolds, Brandeis, Butler).* At utterance of the word "control" in connection with the exalted, non-partisan Supreme Court, Republican lawyers throughout the land raised a loud and angry cry against him. To G. 0. Partisans, it looked like the long-awaited "break" by ambitious young Mr. Roosevelt. He was indignantly accused of "slurring" the Court's high character. Two Republican ex-Governors of New York (Whitman and Miller) were publicly amazed and shocked. Paul Drennan Cravath, whose person...
...Abbey Theatre was opened in 1904 by Miss Annie Elizabeth Fredericka Horniman, onetime private secretary to Poet-Senator William Butler Yeats, for the Irish National Theatre Society. The organization was founded in 1899 through the efforts of Yeats, Lady Gregory and others, to make the world aware of a rebirth of Irish letters. The roster of playwrights who have worked and still work for the Theatre is a literary honor roll: Yeats, Synge, Lady Gregory, AE (George William Russell), Sean O'Casey, George Shiels, Lennox Robinson. And many an Irish Player has left home to make good...
...York;* to blind Helen Keller, the Pictorial Review $5,000 Achievement Prize for completing the $1,000,000 fund campaign for the American Foundation for the Blind; to Steelman Charles M. Schwab, the Melchett medal of the English Institute of Engineers: to Columbia's President Nicholas Murray Butler, the Goethe medal and a certificate signed by President von Hindenburg...
During the boom times, Butler University (enrollment: 1,414) at Indianapolis, Ind. did its athletes proud. It built a big stadium and an elaborate Butler Field House. Ruefully last week Butler's President Walter Scott Athearn took stock. University assets are some $6,000,000. Last year's deficit came to $7,000. Describing the athletic outlay as ''millstones about the neck of the school which bid fair to bankrupt and close [it] within five years." President Athearn declared that the day of intercollegiate athletic spectacles is gone, never to return. "Gate receipts,'' mourned...
...summary: HARVARD DARTMOUTH Murphy, l.e. l.e., Muelle Cahners, l.f. l.f., Erien Gulian, l.g. l.g., Sinsen Letarie, c. c., Butler Prout, r.g. r.g., Billings Burton, r.f. r.f., Mack Kelly, r.e. r.e., Gregory Prouty, q.b. q.b., Goodman Fitz, l.h.b. l.h.b., Chamberlain Jackson, r.h.b. r.h.b., Frigwed Lane, f.b. f.b., McGrath...