Word: corbetts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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James J. ("Gentleman Jim") Corbett, vaudevillian, onetime heavyweight boxing champion of the world, is a member of the Friars Club, famed Manhattan theatrical sodality. For two years the Friars have allowed women to wait for them in a vestibule significantly nicknamed "the boxing room." Last week the Friars closed all their doors to women; "the boxing room" is no more. Explained Boxer-Friar Corbett: "There isn't any gentleman's club that likes to have ladies dropping in. And who ever heard of ladies in a monastery...
...kill his mother at her own pleadings, or to let a painful cancer kill her, was the problem put to one Richard Corbett, intelligent young Englishman. The two, since his father's death, had lived together in southern France. Last November Mrs. Corbett's cancer became unmanageable...
...Richard Corbett assumed the responsibility. He gave his suffering mother a narcotic. Then he shot her through the head. Next he shot himself, but lived. Last week he was in the hospital at Hyeres, reluctantly alive and detachedly wondering what state and social judgment would be on his matricide. He wrote a long letter to Le Matin, outstanding Paris daily, explaining his deed, admitting his "guilt," urging that, come what might to him, the law be changed. "I regret nothing," he said...
Architect Corbett. monumental at 6 ft. 3 in., overtops even Retired Fisticuffer James J. Corbett...
...world demurs but TIME and old-TIMERS profit by the misthinks or mistakes. Let none therefore mistake me for a TIME naggler in correcting TIME'S adequate account of Manhattan's Architectural League Exhibition. The small mistake appears in TIME'S reference to "small" Harvey Wiley Corbett, noted for his tall self and tall towers. Lofty-spire-and-pediment-building Corbett stands well over six feet on the bare foot...