Word: court
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lewis Douglas, 54, Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, was coming along fine: doctors now thought that they could save his left eye, which was snagged by a wind-blown fishhook a month ago on the Test River. Leading off a long report to the State Department, Douglas cracked: "As I see the problem from my bed, and through...
...Waltham offer the lush salary to Hagerty because he deserved it, or as a reward for helping swing the RFC loan?" Retorted RFC: Hagerty did recommend the loan, but RFC headquarters in Washington had the final word. What job he took was his own business. Last week a federal court gave final approval to the deal with RFC, a whistle blew at Waltham and the company started making watches again...
...dazzling blonde gold digger, unwittingly puts his own fingerprints on a murder weapon, runs down a smart killer who has the cops going around in circles, gets settlements from two self-confessed hit & run drivers, and gives a stuffy district attorney plenty of what-for right in open court...
...From old Dr. William Harvey, who had discovered the circulation of the blood, Aubrey got eyewitness accounts of Sir Francis Bacon, whose eye was "like the eie of a viper." Izaak Walton regaled him with anecdotes about the young bricklayer named Ben Jonson who went to Cambridge and died court poet; from an ancient servant he heard of the historic day when Sir Walter Raleigh, fresh from the New World, threw the ladies into fits by puffing a pipe of tobacco. From here & there, Aubrey gleaned tales about a Stratford butcher's boy who was caught poaching; in fact...
Debate on H 442 is unlikely because discussion, and if possible a vote, on the Massachusetts budget is also scheduled for this afternoon and the Sullivan Bill is a relatively minor measure in the General Court...