Word: court
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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William Randolph Hearst "paid me $2,000 a month to write articles against the League of Nations and the World Court this summer. He dismissed me when this Senate inquiry was called." Publisher Hearst admitted hiring Shearer "among others...
...suit which had kept house unit number two, beyond McKinlock Hall, from rising above its foundations was dropped by the plaintiff yesterday. The case, which was due to come up in court this morning, was an attempt to restrain Harvard University by injunction from raising a building which would obscure a view of the Charies from a house owned by the plaintiff in the vicinity of Memorial Drive...
...performance of his career and Marda Vanne as the wife never forgets restraint. Certain episodes exhibit flagrancies of aste. But when the daughter (Maisie Darrel) confesses her troubles to a stalwart boy who wants her love (Robert Douglas), the scene trembles with tragedy and gallantry. And a parody of court procedure is introduced which provides peerless comic relief...
...countess and her granddaughter, three cards and the young girl's lover. The old countess was called Pique-Dame (Queen of Spades) because years before as Belle of St. Petersburg she had attended masquerades in such a costume and because-this was only whispered about the court-she knew three cards by which a gambler could infallibly make his fortune. The soldier, Heran, loved Lisa, the granddaughter, but he had no money. The countess's secret preyed upon him and he hid himself one night in her room, sneaked out when she was alone, threatened her, until, from...
Cohen faces the prospect of a court session on Thursday, at the Third District Court, East Cambridge, for his offence in distributing circulars last Friday...