Word: chosen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...indignity: the courtroom questioning by Parker's Negro attorney on the sexual attack of the 24-year-old white rape victim. Fired by beer, whisky and hot speeches during a two-hour meeting, the plotters eventually hit upon a scheme. By paper ballot, at least ten men were chosen to lynch Parker. They...
...Nouveau is just beginning its vogue. New York's Musum of Modern Art plans an enormous exhibit of the school this summer and similar shows elsewhere will surely follow. Aside from the pleasant but confusing inclusion of Munch and Lautrec, the Busch-Reisinger's well-chosen exhibit gives one a full picture of the Art Nouveau--its frequent failures as well as its undeniable successes...
Other undergraduate officers chosen were Langley S. Keyes '60, of Eliot House and Winchester, Mass., vice-president; and Michael Donahue '60, of Winthrop House and Madison, Conn., treasurer...
Much of the committee's deliberations apparently center about the question of whether a man or a woman should be chosen. At an earlier stage, the committee was reportedly prepared to endorse a member of the History Department...
...Simpson was chosen for his new post by fellow dons and canons, approved by Queen Elizabeth and Prime Minister Macmillan. He is not the first American to head a top English college; Manhattan-born Dr. Arthur L. Goodhart became master of Oxford's University College...