Word: court
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Naturally there were some startling and amusing bits of information to be found in the papers. Senor Venizelos was credited with being a town in Mexico or Greece; Vance. McCormick was a famous Irish tenor and also a well-known war correspondent; honors for chief justice of the Supreme Court were divided between Messrs. Fuller, Hughes, Brandeis and Clark; Leonard Wood was called a pitcher on the Boston Red Sox; Mr. Gompers was accused of being a city in France or possibly South America; among the Maine senators were named Johnson, Burleigh, Hale, Fernald, Peters, McGillicuddy, Guernsey, and Cobb; Combles...
...entirely self-supporting, as the Massachusetts law, as it is applied at present, requires. Although most of us are inclined to concur in the reply which one of the Harvard men involved in last spring's election "frauds" is said to have made to the court's query as to his earning capacity, to wit, that it is unlimited, yet this stupid question should be asked, and so long as the suffrage is not hedged with pecuniary qualifications, the matter of self-support, to one who is pursuing an education, should have nothing to do with his freedom to exercise...
...Shakespeare's play that reminds one somewhat of some modern drama. Here we see the eternal triangle, in this case King Henry, Queen Katharine and Anne Bullen; here we have the noble here, condemned to death by the wily villain, heroically bidding the crowd goodby. Here, too, is the court room scene, but (Heaven be praised!) no one recognizes the prosecuting attorney as a long lost father, or vice- versa. There is a ball room scene, a garden scene--who says that Shakespeare isn't modern? The lights and shadows of King Henry's Court are all displayed before...
...Vitality is the essence of the performance. The Wolsey of Sir Herbert Tree, the King Henry of Mr. Lyn Harding, the Queen Katharine of Miss Edith Wynne Matthison seem to have stepped from the canvasses of Holbein at Hampton Court, so veracious are they in posture and costume. But they do more than fill the eye. The vigor and pulse of their reality and the magnetism of their life touch our emotions and make us understand the human qualities of these princely beings...
...tournament by defeating W. Rand 1G, 6-1, 6-1, 7-5, on Jarvis Field yesterday afternoon. Kelleher played well, although a high wind made good tennis difficult. The match was marked by very little rallying Kellerher seemed to have it his own way, driving deep into Rand's court for points. And although Rand made a many good placement shots, Kelleher seemed always to be able to make a remarkable recovery and win the point...