Word: clement
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Could detect no trace of conscious irony or sarcasm in a remarkable defense of U. S. films by that peppery late Victorian, Colonel Josiah Clement Wedgwood, M. P. When a member casually remarked that U. S. films should be barred from England because so many of them are indecent, Colonel Wedgwood leaped up and shouted: "No sir! You are all wrong. Beware that you do not plunge us from the American whirlpool into the French cesspool! Perhaps I shouldn't put it like that. But let's get away from the idea that American films are immoral. Dull they...
...however, the East is thought of as a new discovery; a discovery that begins with the thrilling adventures of Marco Polo. Few realize the ancient connection between China and the west; that trade between Greece and Korea throve in the first century of our era; that in 1307 Pope Clement, V. constituted Pekin an archepiscopal see in favor of a missionary Franciscan: John of Montecorvino, or that purely Mongolian types appear in some of the Sienese paintings of the thirteenth century...
...latter part of the week of March, 21 was selected as the time for the hearing of ten students and Arthur Clement sentenced for participation in the Harvard square "riot" before the Middlesex Surperior Criminal Court, when they were arranged before Judge Broadhurst yesterday. The defendants were held in $100 ball each, and all pleaded not guilty...
...Begun by Friar Roger in 1266 at the command of Clement IV (Guy de Foulques) to survey and summarize knowledge in the 13th Century...
...Shaw '28, walking home in company with Arthur Clement on Holyoke Street, was overtaken by a crowded patrol wagon on the way to the station. Although neither Shaw nor Clement offered any resistance, they were both thrown into the wagon, Shaw after receiving a blow on, the head that necessitated several stitches, Benjamin Dorman '29, half a block down the street received the same treatment, and did not recover complete consciousness for several hours...