Word: court
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
America's long established policy of creating no entangling alliances seems thus to have recoiled upon herself. The fact that she has remained aloof from the League of Nations and the World Court has not passed unnoticed by nations eager for the maintenance of international prosperity. At present, the warring factions of her senate are devising new obstacles which may prevent the passage of the Kellogg peace treaty. All this naturally creates the misleading impression that the United Statees respects only her own people, and contributes only toward their happiness...
This game will be preceded by the yearling contest at 7 o'clock on the same court. The Freshman line-up has not been announced, as the players have been shifting positions since the Tilton game. HARVARD M. I. T. Wenner, l.f. r.f., Nelson O'Connell, r.f. l.f., Allen Upton, c. c., Brockelman Rex, l.g. r.g., McDowell Farrell, r.g. l.g., Lawson
...translate the Old Testament from Hebrew into Greek at morning prayers, and the New Testament from English into Greek at evening prayers, so as to combine piety and scholarship. But he did much else than teach. The College was supported largely by a "country rate" laid by the General Court in the towns, whose tax-collectors sometimes needed a personal visit before they would "come across...
...King and Queen of England, on the recommendation of the Prince of Wales, invited her to perform at Windsor Castle two years ago. Last spring, Miss Draper was presented at the Court of St. James's, an honor no British actress has ever received, and an episode which added one more brief, unpredictable mis-en-scene to the abrupt series in which Ruth Draper's life, and all other lives, is told...
...cinema, The Cohens and Kellys, which dealt with the same situation (Irish-Hebrew romance), achieved some box-office attention. Accordingly, last week, Anne Nichols, asking $3,000,000, was in court to sue Universal Pictures Corp. for plagiarism. The trial proceeded in the higgly-piggly fashion of plagiarism suits, with interminable memorabilia, mentions of long-forgotten vaudeville skits and old plays from which The Cohens and Kellys might possibly have been derived. Some Universal adman had written an advertisement in which The Cohens and Kellys had been called "another Abie's Irish Rose." This was discussed. Universal discredited...