Word: court
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bequest of about $68,000 to found a department of eugenics at Harvard was awarded yesterday to Jefferson Medical College after a litigation for the money brought on by Harvard's refusal of the gift. The award was made by the Philadelphia orphan's court...
...Sportsman is not that of the common or (Boston) garden fan. The Sportsman is the American equivalent of the Earl of Lonsdale. It wears the tallest of tall gray hats. It rides to hounds, and it does more; it hounds its readers to ride. Steeplechasing, polo, the court games, and its more gentlemanly side of aviation are its favorite themes. There is no humor in these things, but plenty of fun can be poked at their devotees. The Lampoon has done a good...
After Harvard declined the fund, "feeling that the corporation would be unable to apply it in accordance with the desires of the testator," other institutions interested in eugenics and relatives of Dr. Mears sought to be awarded the money. The award to Jefferson was made because the court held it was qualified in every way to carry out the directions of the donor as expressed in his will...
...this local legend are figures and inscriptions symbolizing great government. From various corners, growing architecturally out of the walls, the austere faces of great lawgivers survey the prairies-Hammurabi, Moses, Pharaoh, Solon, Solomon, the Caesars, Charlemagne, Napoleon. No carven motto is more obvious than that above the Supreme Court bench: "Eyes and ears are poor witnesses when the soul is barbarous." All of the ornament has significance and is worked into the fabric of the building. The Goodhue family are oldtime Connecticut dwellers. Architect Goodhue was born in Pomfret Hill. Not for him was the European interlude enjoyed by most...
Publisher Friede (see above) rushed from Boston to Manhattan to appear before a Court of Special Sessions. There his company's novel, The Well of Loneliness by Authoress Radclyffe Hall of England, was being attacked by the Society for the Suppression of Vice. Three judges decided this book was not obscene. The book's theme: Lesbianism...