Word: courting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Into the East Room, curtained, flower-banked, walked President Hoover alone. Down into a metal casket set near the wall he gazed for silent sorrowful minutes into the face of his dead friend and Secretary of War, James William Good. After the President returned, the Cabinet, the Supreme Court, Senators, Representatives, army officers, foreign envoys stood by for the simple funeral service. The President sat motionless, with bowed head, in a damask-covered gilt chair. His eyes followed the casket as it was borne away from the White House to the beat of muffled drums for its last journey...
...every court day for over six weeks fourscore New York poultrymen roosted on a bleacher in a Federal courtroom in Manhattan. Alleged racketeers of the poultry trade, they were on trial en masse for conspiracy to restrain commerce (TIME, Oct. 21). Twenty-two defendants pleaded guilty or were dismissed during trial. Last week the jury found 66 of the remaining bleacherites guilty, two innocent...
...Have this book wrapped up, sealed, and impounded," he said, "and keep it until you receive an order from the district attorney or the superior court...
Dunster House, under Professor Greenough, will contain 110 single suites and 62 double suites. It will have a library, in the center of the House, facing the river and main court. This will hold at the beginning, about 5000 volumes carefully chosen from all fields of study in which students are interested. It is expected that practically all the books ordinarily used in tutorial work or in work outside of classes will be included, and, in addition, standard reference works and books for general reading...
...high tower at the Northeast corner of the West Court, there will be a "meeting room". This is intended for the use of small student organizations, primarily members of the House, who wish to have a place of reunion at stated times...